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  TGS Breaks Records With 194,000 Attendance
by Eric Caoili
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October 14, 2008
 
TGS Breaks Records With 194,000 Attendance
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This year's Tokyo Game Show broke attendance records with 194,288 visitors at the four-day conference, according to final tallies released by organizer CESA.

2007's Tokyo Game Show set the previous record with 193,040 attendees, over a thousand less than this year's count. The expo has grown every year since 2002, when it switched formats from a bi-annual event to a yearly show.

While the first half of TGS 2008, which was open only to press and business invites, saw 10,690 less visitors, the second, public half saw attendance increase by 11,938. Attendance by minors was also down by 4,006.

To compare, August's four-day Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany attracted 203,000 visitors, while October's three-day Entertainment for All Expo in Los Angeles brought in 15,000 attendees, both public conferences reporting their highest attendance yet.

The largest North American game event currently is Penny Arcade Expo, which reported an estimated 58,500 attendees for this year's event, up sharply on previous years.
 
   
 
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Anonymous
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Hum hum...
Leipzig Game Convention attracted actually more people than TGS with 204 000 attendees this summer. That makes it the largest event in term of attendees. The bad new for them is that it may not be the same next year with a competing event on the same ground...
GC Leipzig website :
http://www.gc-germany.com/index.php?page=64¶ms[0][0]=YToxOntzOjg6InJlZGlyZWN
0IjtiOjE7fQ==&session=411dd82b780bbc2bcf9dc87ce548ebf2

Eric Caoili
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Thank you for the correction! We've made sure to update the article with the correct attendee count.


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