As reported by Automaton , Famitsu has released a preview of its annual Famitsu Game Hakusho , a survey of the games industry by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories. One confounding takeaway from the data is that the games market in Japan is bigger than ever, with the PC space nearly matching consoles for economic impact, while there are slightly fewer gamers⁠ in the country overall, and many millions fewer PC gamers than just a decade ago.

Japanese games industry by market size (Famitsu estimate) • Overall market 2024: 2,396.1 billion ($16.2 billion) • Overall market 2023: 2,317.6 billion ($15.7 billion) • PC gaming market 2024: 265.3 billion ($1.8 billion)

Japanese gamers by population (Famitsu estimate) • Overall 2024: 54.753 million • Overall 2014: 48.55 million • PC 202

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