Taipei game show has seen huge attendance this year with cumulative 430,000 attendees over the five day event. The show has grown to a scale of 195 companies occupying 1471 booths. To put that into perspective, Gamescom last year had attendance of 335,000 people and had more than 700 exhibitors. In terms of attendance, TGS is bigger.
The growing Taipei Game Show has become a relevant showcase for the PlayStation brand, and Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia demonstrated a huge number of games for PlayStation systems including Dragon Quest Heroes, Metal Gear Solid V, Street Fighter V and many others. In total Sony had 26 PS4 games, ten PS Vita games and one PS3 game playable on the show floor.
The event has also been huge for mobile with Google confirming that Taiwan is among the top five markets in terms of revenue for official Android app store Google Play. Chris Yerga, vice president of Google engineering and head of Google Play Asia Pacific said Taiwan's gaming market is rapidly changing, from being based in Internet cafes to smartphones and that, today, 72 per cent of Taiwanese smartphone users play games on their smartphones.
PC and Online gaming saw a huge amount of press with a StarCraft II: Hear of the Swarm finals competition in the Intel Extreme Masters Taipei tournament. Players from Taiwan faced off against competitors from South Korea and the Netherlands for a cash prize of US$75,000 and two tickets to the IEM world championship slated for March in Katowice, Poland.
Other high-profile activities included a pageant to select a brand ambassador for the popular mobile game "Tower of Saviors" (神魔之塔
and the finals of the Taiwan-Hong Kong-Macau tournaments of the Knife Tower Legend (刀塔傳奇 card game. Even with the final day of the event being the first day of nationwide college entrance exams, many turned out to check out what was on offer.
Taiwan has grown to be a huge gaming market and you can view the livestream of the event below as well as key videos from the event including crowd reactions for certain localisation announcements. You will notice that a huge number of game developers, producers and representatives attended this event. Hideo Kojima for example is just one example of many.
Live Stream
Dragon Quest Heroes | Crowd reaction to localisation
Metal Gear Solid V | Crowd reaction to localisation
Street Fighter 5
Final Fantasy Type 0
Final Fantasy 15
Japanese Porn Stars (and Yakuza Zero gameplay....)
Tower of Saviors
Even more Japanese Porn Stars
Source
The growing Taipei Game Show has become a relevant showcase for the PlayStation brand, and Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia demonstrated a huge number of games for PlayStation systems including Dragon Quest Heroes, Metal Gear Solid V, Street Fighter V and many others. In total Sony had 26 PS4 games, ten PS Vita games and one PS3 game playable on the show floor.
The event has also been huge for mobile with Google confirming that Taiwan is among the top five markets in terms of revenue for official Android app store Google Play. Chris Yerga, vice president of Google engineering and head of Google Play Asia Pacific said Taiwan's gaming market is rapidly changing, from being based in Internet cafes to smartphones and that, today, 72 per cent of Taiwanese smartphone users play games on their smartphones.
PC and Online gaming saw a huge amount of press with a StarCraft II: Hear of the Swarm finals competition in the Intel Extreme Masters Taipei tournament. Players from Taiwan faced off against competitors from South Korea and the Netherlands for a cash prize of US$75,000 and two tickets to the IEM world championship slated for March in Katowice, Poland.
Other high-profile activities included a pageant to select a brand ambassador for the popular mobile game "Tower of Saviors" (神魔之塔
and the finals of the Taiwan-Hong Kong-Macau tournaments of the Knife Tower Legend (刀塔傳奇 card game. Even with the final day of the event being the first day of nationwide college entrance exams, many turned out to check out what was on offer. Taiwan has grown to be a huge gaming market and you can view the livestream of the event below as well as key videos from the event including crowd reactions for certain localisation announcements. You will notice that a huge number of game developers, producers and representatives attended this event. Hideo Kojima for example is just one example of many.
Live Stream
Dragon Quest Heroes | Crowd reaction to localisation
Metal Gear Solid V | Crowd reaction to localisation
Street Fighter 5
Final Fantasy Type 0
Final Fantasy 15
Japanese Porn Stars (and Yakuza Zero gameplay....)
Tower of Saviors
Even more Japanese Porn Stars
Source
P Chinese localization, for example, is a PS4 exclusive as Sony is footing the bill and manpower (Sony Taiwan) to get it done.
