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I'm guessing asian markets have to do with this. PC gaming is way more popular than console gaming in China, mostly due to the long ban. League of Legends is a
by dexwiz 11y ago
I'm guessing asian markets have to do with this. PC gaming is way more popular than console gaming in China, mostly due to the long ban.
League of Legends is also incomprehensibly huge. And Blizzard is nothing to scoff at.
*EDIT: Found the article an article from Newzoo. Looks like China alone is almost triples USA PC game sales.
http://www.newzoo.com/insights/us-and-china-take-half-of-113bn-games-market-in-2018/ http://www.newzoo.com/insights/us-and-china-take-half-of-113...
- wyldfire 11y agoThe "long ban"? On XBox/PS/etc?
- adventured 11y agoYeah - Why are consoles banned in China (2010): http://kotaku.com/5587577/why-are-consoles-banned-in-china http://kotaku.com/5587577/why-are-consoles-banned-in-china China lifts the ban (2013): http://kotaku.com/china-lifts-their-console-ban-but-theres-strings-at-1425338783 http://kotaku.com/china-lifts-their-console-ban-but-theres-s...
- beefsack 11y agoIt's important to note thought that there was always a fairly significant grey market for consoles and games in China. Some big department stores even sold major consoles and games, including Friendship Stores[1] which are state run. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_store https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_store