Despite the popularity of the IBM PC in the West during the 1980s, it had shortcomings that prevented it from flourishing in the Japanese market, most of all support for the Japanese language. This ...

PC gaming is accelerating rapidly in Japan, offering Microsoft a unique opportunity to swoop in and capture more of this uptick with its PC Game Pass subscription service. According to new data from ...

A new report has shone light on how the Japanese PC games market is growing, with both revenues and player count nearly doubling over the course of just a few years. Kantan Games analyst Dr Serkan ...

Japan's PC gaming market has roughly doubled in three years, growing to nearly $896 million US between 2018 and 2021. The user base of active PC gamers has increased by 5 million from 2015 to 2021, ...

NEC and Lenovo, the world's No. 4 PC manufacturer, are joining forces to create the largest personal computer business in Japan. NEC now has about a one-fifth share of Japan's PC market while Lenovo, ...

The big picture: For decades, many have considered the PC game market a niche in Japan --- a country traditionally associated with arcade and console games. While PC is still nowhere near dominant in ...

While North America and Europe are the predominant regions for gaming, Japan represents an untapped market for Xbox in particular. Domestic giants like Nintendo and PlayStation have traditionally ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Google Play Games for PC is set to expand to more territories, such as more countries in Europe and Japan. The search giant announced during the Games Developer Summit 2023 that Google Play Games on ...

Automaton reports that Asus has raised the price of the ROG Xbox Ally X in Japan from 139,800 yen tax included ($911) to 169,800 yen tax included ($1,107). That’s a jump of 30,000 yen or almost $200 ...

The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) estimated that the global PC market scale, in terms of units, will shift away from the declines in 2022 and 2023 and ...