https://kotaku.com/pc-gaming-grows-over-200-percent-in-four-years-in-japan-as-global-hits-break-through-2000736037>Japan has historically been known as a country whose games industry has been driven by domestic developers and hardware, as well as mobile, but that may be changing. While PC has been growing globally, according to a new industry report, its rise has been particularly notable in the Japanese market, where revenue has grown over 234 percent to record levels in just the last four years.>According to a preliminary report from Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA), compared to 2021 when domestic PC revenue hit 132.1 billion yen, such revenue in 2025 surpassed 300 billion yen for the first time. >Steam’s top games of the year in Japan, in contrast to consoles where Nintendo’s Switch and Switch 2 exclusives dominate, are driven by global free-to-play titles, with Counter-Strike 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, and Apex Legends being the three biggest games in terms of revenue. >While Japan’s overall games industry revenue has increased in recent years, a closer look at the reports shows that it is PC driving almost all of this growth.>Comparatively, mobile game revenue has mostly remained stagnant since 2021, growing just 4.5 percent. Console revenue, meanwhile, has fluctuated, though the launch of Switch 2 pushed revenue to an overall growth of 26.7 percent compared to 2021. >While mobile remains dominant, accounting for 71 percent of yearly gaming revenue, PC gaming now accounts for 12 percent of Japanese gaming revenue compared to just 6 percent in 2021.Pretty cool seeing PC grow in Japan.
PC is for spreadsheets, real gaming is done on consoles.
Guess they seen Sonys lunacy coming on after they moved
>>748441269vtubers are responsible for this
Can you bame them after console shitshow?PC is where piracy and emu is.Currently playing picrel.
>>748441269Gabes Steam machine is the great enabler. Sony and Microsoft lost massively
>>748442127No one cares for the westernized Asian dragon whore.
>purely virtual environment>still doesn't passno refunds
>>748441269I see a lot of JP crimson desert players writing adventure blogs these days. It reminds me of the old Oblivion days
>>7484421270/4 i mog
>>748441269Its because of Vtubers and jap streamers using PCs. Also them playing games on Steam and japs realizing all their old console games have PC ports.
>>748442127>posting the orange whore who nearly ruined vtubingKill yourself holoshitter.
>it's because of vtumorsDo japs really?
>>748446753Japs love VTubers. If you go to anime stores you'll see a fuck ton of stuff for them there
>>748446753Yes, because before the PC was the Kusoge-platform for shitty indie games and porn. The two big factors for japs buying PCs of their own was Vtubers playing PC games and lot of their old childhood games having PC ports. For japanese game companies PC has become the secondary "port everything into it"-platform because its cheap, easy and makes extra money.
Probably doesn't mean much because Japs historically scoffed at PC gaming and only considered it a home of porn & shovelware.Which isn't really wrong if you think about it.
>>748441269>implying japs would ever play FPSes, a tiny westaboo minority asideI bet this "unprecedented growth" is all migrants.
>>748447390>implying japs would ever play FPSes,They don't need to play FPSses. Look at all the jap streamers including Vtubers and the biggest videos are all about them playing new Onimusha.
Debunked
>>748442127I recognize the dog and bnnuy from porn.
Revenue doubled in 4 years. Not the number of regular users. You know what else more than doubled in the last 4 years?
>>748441269Because consoles suck. They're just locked down PCs at this point>back in the day people got consoles because they could do shit computers couldn't, like more colors, 3D graphics, etc.>consoles were easy and dumb. plug and play. nowadays everything's installed to tiny flash memory chips that can only fit 2~3 games and you need an account so your money can get stolen by corporations>consoles had solid performance. today they struggle to hit 30fps, let alone 60>consoles were undeniably cheaper ($200~$500, some dropped as low as $50, Vita TV even cheaper at $30) compared to $1~2k computers that would become obsolete in a couple of years due to Moore's law. today you're forced to pay the retard tax ($560 over 7 years) on top of the console ($700) and performance is abysmal as explained above>PC controllers sucked dick until the 360 (shame about the dogshit that is XInput though. still can't remap buttons and assign controller ports to this day)>while PCs have evolved to play nearly every game on earth (thanks to the efforts of volunteers, not jewish corporations), consoles have forced walled gardens down the consumerist cattle's throats to force you to rebuy your games every generationConsoles are fucking done for. There's not a single point in their favor. The only way out is for them to become PCs that run every program and also games
>>748449154even a cheap NUC/mini pc has more value than console these days
>>748441327not even japanese would agree with you, but the main issue is that you bothered by people who have no idea who you are playing on PC
>>748441269>playing westoidslop gamesJapan has fallen...
>>748450218you're like a decade late. they absolutely love western garbage games. a lot of you retards and weeaboos have no idea how limp-wristed and socially liberal japs can be
>>748446429What is there to even write? Plus it didn't even sell there. I think it probably sold like 20k units or some shit. The ones who might even just watched some 5 viewer vtuber fujo play it for about 5 hours and move on to the next thing.
>>748446753It isn't, though. Japan was slowly moving over to PC long before they became a thing, and the current boom is completely unrelated.
>>748441269It's been growing thanks to KanColle and Vtumors happening in the same year
>>748450742gay marriage is still banned
>>748452132Why would they need it when they can marry any hologram or body pillow they want.
>>748442127is one of them RAY MOO?
Good, maybe now all those cool games will be ported to PC instead of requiring you to emulate them.
>>748442127
>>748452453>ported by Capcom on Sega with denuvo forever>old ass Sega game ports only accessible as arcade games in the latest Yakuza demake
>>748441269>Pretty cool seeing PC grow in Japan.I mean, going from a computer illiterate country to growing the market it's not that difficult when most households don't even have computers.
>>748441269If this is what it takes to kill consoles, I’ll take the vtumors
>>748452132so? that won't stop the increasing number of immigrants. you're just like limp-wristed japs who refuse to do anything
Does this mean japs are now going to optimize their PC releases?
>>748441269How the fuck do they afford anything right now?
>>748442127Its Vtubers and porn/doujin games. Franchises like Rance are borderline mainstream in Japan and PC only.
>>748441269Once they checked the language, they found that those new PC gamers in Japan were actually Chinese
only because japs could not buy ps5 from scalpers
>>748449097If you don't say my dick size I'm kmsing myself
>>748452887The same way as western normalfags who bitch and moan about living paycheck to paycheck, but somehow always manage to cough up enough money for the latest iphone.
>>748442127i can name all of them besides the far right one, shouldn't that one be replaced by kizuna ai or something? not trying to be mean
>>748441269300,000,000 yen is less than 2 US million dollars.
>>748453440where does it say 300,000,000 yen?
>>748441269>Alicia Had Dick
>>748441269What do they play?
>>748449097Jannies wages?
>>748441269200 percent increase from a small number is still a small number>revenue in 2025 surpassed 300 billion yenwow $2b, it's fucking nothing
>>748453560In the article and copy-pasted in the OP. Next time ask grok to read it to you.
>>748452913>porn/doujin gamesThose have been PC-only in Japan for centuries, and that didn't help that platform's popularity in the slightest.
>>748453791i don't see it desucan you quote where it says 300 million yen?
So PC gaymers are now super normy cucks? Good to know
>PC gaming finally gets big (again) in Japan>every game now has a default PC port>even the retard boomers at vanillaware finally caved in>payment providers are now hellbent on ruining artistic freedom
>>748442127Also the fact that every noteworthy gacha game has a PC client.
>>748448352This is probably mostly browser games moving to mobile devices.
>>748442127I only care about Korone all else can fuck off.
>>748442127>Tranny, troon, tran and troonley>That was too easy
>>748454152Nips don't play gachas on PC, even those that have a client. Well, except maybe Blue Archive, now that they've got non-Steam PC client of their own. Because pixel hunting for the perfect spot for your student to avoid the telegraphed AoE on a phone screen sucks.It's not that PC wasn't there for nips all this time. And the games were available on PC as well, even fully localized and voiced in Japanese (for premium price back then though). It's just that there was no awareness among Japanese gamers of affordability of hardware and huge game library on PC for them to see it as a gaming platform. Until vtubers, because they stream and thus play on PC (since it's better than bothering with capture cards all the time).
>>748453984>>every game now has a default PC portJap devs still don't know what PC is. They still make consolized garbage>UI only navigable with arrow keys. no page skip buttons (but somehow RB and LB on controller work). you're lucky if you get mouse controls and the ability to use the keyboard to fill in text fields>xbox or ps button prompts. you need to guess which key maps into what button. not the end of the world but still annoying>PC gets no extra keys, so you get retarded overlaps like interact and reload being tied to the same input
>>748441327>real gaming is done on consoles.>look inside>gaming has to be dumbed down because controllers have too few buttons and can't aim well>the sole feature of a controller that isn't on a keyboard is being able to slowly walk for cinematic snoyware
>>748454457>They still make consolized garbageThat's everyone. Unless the game was designed with PC in mind, the keyboard controls suck 90% of the time except for aiming>xbox or ps button prompts. you need to guess which key maps into what button. not the end of the world but still annoyingWhat was the last game, released in the past 5 years, that didn't autodetect what type of controller you were using, or didn't let you choose your button layout? >PC gets no extra keys, so you get retarded overlaps like interact and reload being tied to the same inputSee above. PC ports in general aren't good, it's no longer a Japan thing.
>>748454535>>the sole feature of a controller that isn't on a keyboard is being able to slowly walk for cinematic snoywareThis is solved in some games. Yakuza ports let you hold some key to simulate the half press.
>>748453691Bad Rats
>>748454823>What was the last gameI don't fucking remember. I've been playing on controller forever>See aboveIf the control says interact/reload, it does both and it's hardcoded
>>748448352>2025you've been overbunked
>>748448352>studies suggestsWow, very insecure studies.
>muh "harder to use than consoles">muh "worse performance than consoles">muh "porn-tainted reputation"The truth is that japs' preferences for which platform and games to buy are dictated 99% by nationalism. If it's Made In Japan, they buy it, if it isn't, they don't.
>>748441269Why does Apex attract the japanese so much?I feel like it's fallen out of the west's radar for the last 4 years
>>748456193I wish. All of the chink and Korean gacha's inroads into Japan have definitively proven that to be false. Japan just likes what it likes. If you make what they like (to the point where the chinks are giving their games Japanese titles and prioritize Japanese VO), they'll apparently buy it.
>>748455687>>748455854>>748456434>PC was already shrinking due to apex and other games dying.>Even vtubers are moving to the switch 2.>AIslop bubble is raping the prices of PC components hard, for some reason doubly so in japan.And these fags want me to believe somehow there's growth recently? Is it just chinks using VPNs to count as japan sales or something? The entire list that constitutes the "growth" is actually the same GAAS PvPslop that chinks have been playing for a decade actually.
>>748456901>they want ME to believe the data instead of being delusional?
>>748456901You need a VPN to lurk, but this is their main PC games board:https://egg.5ch.io/game/They also have several other boards for specific genres:>/gamef/ - PC action (FPS, TPS, other)>/netgame/ - online PC games>/fly/ - flight sims>/retro/ - windows 98 and DOS>/gameama/ - doujin, indie>/hgame/ - erotic>/gsaloon/ - emulation and general chat
>>748458270>emulationI thought the japanese were against emulation? Don't you get 400 years in the rice dungeons if they find out you have NES roms on a diskette somewhere?
>>748454457Capcom PC games have gotten massively better over the years. Settings are actually meaningful, input options are properly supported. I think the same is true of most of the big publishers. It's the smaller guys that still have the console mindset.
>>748458557On twitter, ameba and nico nico. 5chan's consolebaby boards too. PC boards don't give a shit but probably still virtue signal about buying used discs and making their own dumps.
>>7484582705channel sucks so much dick. so slowiirc they use alternate applications to browse because the web frontend is absolute dogshit
>>748441269The japs are buying those deck-style handhelds, its pretty funny how they use them for everything even watching tv.
>>748458679They're mostly phoneposters and had been this way years before iphone was a thing.
>>748441269>xbox is filthy gaijin system>playstation went baka and left Japan to be fat burger gaijin system>nintendo is nippon approved, but not everyone wants to exclusively play on a fucking handheldThis isn't really surprising, I doubt this will translate into better PC ports tho.
>>748457061data says sony is bigger than nintendo in japan gaming wisereality says otherwise
>>748446753Japs are the biggest longhouse society
>>748442127>>748446740>>748446661>>748452623>>748454317>>>/vt/ranny
>>748450218>'''westoid'''Very antiwhite of you
>>748441269+200% of jack shit is still jack shit thoughits comical anyone would fall for this meme when its an old journo trick to fudge numbers
>>748459873data says pc gaming has grown massively in the past few years in japanbut you're too dumb to interpret steam survey data aren't you?
>>748460481It's CESA boomers thinking they caught the very beginning of a massive PC boom that will go into full swing any time now.
>>748441269Thank you Apex Legends
>>748442127cocomelon for indonesians and filipinos
>>748441269>kiketakuYeah didn't read, brass bull yourself
lol its absolutely not big here i dont think you ppl know how expensive pc parts are here in comparison to wages. ps4+switch is what most people play games on and everyone usually has some old vaio shittop for anything not on consoles.
>>748462754Macacos and slavs are paid in bananas and potatoes plus their retailers sell hardware at huge markup, yet they're all on PC too.
>>748441327But consoles don't have any games
>>748441327Your consoles are just cut down PC hardware with none of the advantages of an open platform or even the advantages consoles used to have.
>>748463237the average slav is richer than the average nip>macacosthose niggas are still on ps2
>>748463237slavs have always had a pc culture, the japs will always be loyal to nintendo and to a lesser extent sony
>>748463486>those niggas are still on ps2The HUEHUE in every older gook PC MMO suggests otherwise.
>>748463486That's bullshit. Japs on average get around 3-4x as much money than average people in my country and the PC parts are roughly just as expensive on both sides. Not buying PC is just a choice they collectively make. The PC community in japan is -and has always been- pretty small, most japs opt for a Switch.t. balkan anon who lived in japan
>>748463237south americans get relatively cheap old pc parts due to chink smuggling anon
yeah playstation shit the bed in japan
