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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by dexwiz on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:06AM (#10843268)
I'm guessing asian markets have to do with this. PC gaming is way more popular than console gaming in China, mostly due to the long ban.

League of Legends is also incomprehensibly huge. And Blizzard is nothing to scoff at.

*EDIT: Found the article an article from Newzoo. Looks like China alone is almost triples USA PC game sales.

http://www.newzoo.com/insights/us-and-china-take-half-of-113...

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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by wyldfire on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:19AM (#10843620)
The "long ban"? On XBox/PS/etc?
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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by adventured on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:21AM (#10843631)
Yeah -

Why are consoles banned in China (2010): http://kotaku.com/5587577/why-are-consoles-banned-in-china

China lifts the ban (2013): http://kotaku.com/china-lifts-their-console-ban-but-theres-s...

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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by beefsack on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:02PM (#10846817)
It's important to note thought that there was always a fairly significant grey market for consoles and games in China.

Some big department stores even sold major consoles and games, including Friendship Stores[1] which are state run.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_store

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