China's PC games market
China's PC games market has weakened because of the pandemic.
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Niko Partners: China games expected to top $46 billion in 2024

PC and mobile games revenue in China hit $33.1 billion in 2019, and it is expected to grow to $46.7 billion by 2024, according to a new reports on PC and mobile games by market researcher Niko Partners.

The new forecast takes into account the effects of the pandemic. For instance, Niko Partners now expects PC game revenues to fall 5% in 2020 as a result of the difficulties playing at internet cafes in China, but the mobile forecast has been upgraded because of higher demand, said Lisa Cosmas Hanson, in an email to GamesBeat. Cosmas Hanson moderated a panel on the pandemic’s effect on China in a panel at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2020 event.

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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.