Thursday, February 05, 2004
Posted by Roberto
8:10 AM
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THE ONLINE GAMING MARKET IN CHINA
In China, at the end of 2003, there were 79.5 million Internet users.
13.8 million were online gamers. (Source: Economic-Daily, Beijing)
China's Internet game sales income last year reached 1.32 billion yuan (US$159 million), up almost 50 percent from 2002.
"Internet gaming is an industry where you can earn millions when asleep" said Ding Lei, a founder of Netease.
South Koreans and Japanese are twice as likely to participate to online games compared to the global average of 30 gamers in every 100 Internet users.
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