The Tokyo Game Show is a huge annual gaming convention in Japan, but have you wondered who is there, how big it is compared to previous years?
The organizers released that information yesterday. Let’s take a look.
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association in cooperation with Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. are holding the “TOKYO GAME SHOW 2012” over a four-day period from Thursday, September 20 to Sunday, September 23, 2012 under the theme of “Spreading Smiles through Games.
The first two days of the show (Sep. 20 & 21) are “Business Days” for the relevant parties in the game industry while the later two days (Sep. 22 & 23) will be “Public Days.
Exhibitors of the TOKYO GAME SHOW 2012 are from 19 different countries and regions, including Japan, and the total number of exhibitors is 209 corporations and organizations (126: domestic, 83: overseas). The total number of booths is 1,609.
A record number of 1,043 titles applied for exhibition.
– Number of exhibitors: 209 (last year: 193)
– Number of exhibiting titles: 1,043 (last year: 736)
– Number of booths: 1,609 (last year: 1,250)
– Exhibiting countries and regions: 19 (last year: 16)
Countries and regions exhibiting at the TOKYO GAME SHOW2012
Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, U.K., U.S.A. and Vietnam.
(alphabetical order)
Exhibition titles
As seen in the trend of the titles (including goods) to be exhibited in 2012, the number of smartphone titles and tablet titles significantly increased over the last year.
List of titles to be exhibited by platform and genre
(as of September 19, 2012)
Platform – No. of titles
– PC – 32
– Smartphone – 265 (iOS – 139, Android 126)
– Tablet – 100 (iOS – 100)
– Feature phone 142 (NTT docomo – 47, au – 48, Softbank – 47)
– Nintendo DS – 2
– Nintendo 3DS – 34
– Wii – 5
– Wii U – 2
– PlayStation 3 – 57
– PlayStation Portable – 30
– PlayStation Vita – 24
– Xbox 360 – 24
– Others(*1) – 326
TOTAL 1043
Genre – No. of titles
– Role playing – 148
– Action – 118
– Simulation – 96
– Online card game – 48
– Sports – 31
– Tactical role playing – 24
(Simulation role playing)
– Card game – 23
– Online role playing – 21
– Shooting – 21
– Adventure – 14
– Puzzle – 11
– Racing – 11
– Action adventure – 8
– Others (genre) – 116
– Development tools – 9
– Peripherals – 22
– Others (goods) – 322
TOTAL 1043
