Mobile game installs grew again in Japan in Q1 | Adjust

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 18, 2024
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

Mobile game installs grew 7% in the first quarter of 2024 in Japan, according to a new report from measurement firm Adjust.

Sessions were up 6% for games compared to Q1 2023, Adjust said, after mobile game app installs and sessions declined in early 2022 and stabilized in 2023. And in Q1, the install numbers were up 18% compared to the fourth quarter of 2023. The downside: players aren’t spending as much.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.