Chinese Game Market: Trends and Share of Mobile Games
Chinese game market: the first slowdown since 2008 – 2018 China Game Industry Report
From Guangzhou
December 26, 2018
“2018 China Game Industry Report” was announced.
The sales value of the Chinese game industry in 2018 increased by 5.3% from the previous year to 214.44 billion yuan (about 3, 4 431 billion yen, 1 yuan = about 16 yen).
The number of users increased by 7.3% to 626 million
The stricter licensing of online games in China affects sales growth.
Slow down mobile games and increase game commentary
Mobile game market · Sales amount increased by 15.4% to 13,396 million RMB yuan, 62.5% of the entire game market.
Mobile game users increased by 9.2% to 605 million.
Game commentary (Note) Market sales amount is about 7.44 billion yuan, about 2.1 times as compared with the previous year.
The number of users rapidly expanded to 300 million, an increase of 38.5%.
Game companies
As of the end of 2018, 199 companies listed companies,
There are 151 domestic market,
33 Hong Kong markets,
15 US companies in the US market
– JETRO
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