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Gamescom 2021: Where are the German video games?

Germany has the second-largest video games market in Europe, with 44.3 million players in 2018, after Russia. Customers in Germany invested EUR4.4 billion on video games over the course of 2018, a 9 percent year-on-year boost from 2017. The computer game market in Germany grew by 6 percent to EUR6.2 billion ($6.7 billion) in 2019. The annual Gamescom in Perfume is the globe's largest computer game expo by variety of attendees. Also in Germany, the video game market is in the boom. Last year, approximately 8.7 billion euros were issued for gaming for this country. How much of it went to German developers and publishers? According to the industry association Game, the proportion of German video games was merely 4.2 percent. This is a slight decline compared to 2019, where the proportion was 4.9 percent. German video games on the Gamescom Video games from Germany take only a small part of the market. On the Gamescom, one of the largest video game fairs in the world, was clearly wa...