The scene at the Tokyo Game Show 2024 entrance on Saturday.
The scene at the Tokyo Game Show 2024 entrance on Saturday.
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Tokyo Game Show 2024 draws in the crowds — and the key people | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I made it to Japan this week for my first Tokyo Game Show. Yes, in 27 years of regular coverage of games, I have never been to the show until now. Here’s some of my impressions of the event, which should draw around 200,000 people or so — many of them cosplayers on the weekend.

An update: The organizers of TGS said preliminary numbers show that 274,739 visitors attended the event. That’s up 12.9% from 243,238 last year.

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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.