Nintendo and Sony hamstrung in China by thin game libraries

Regulators have approved only 1% of titles released for Switch and PS5

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Nintendo's Switch console has had only 50 or so games approved in China since its 2019 release there. (Photo by Itsuro Fujino)

ITSURO FUJINO, KANOKO SAKAMOTO and RYO SATO, Nikkei staff writers

GUANGZHOU/OSAKA/TOKYO -- Nintendo and Sony Group have struggled to find a Chinese audience for their Switch and PlayStation 5 consoles, with regulatory barriers keeping all but a fraction of their video games out of the roughly $42 billion market.

Tencent Holdings and other big Chinese game makers were among the highest-profile exhibitors at the ChinaJoy video game expo in Shanghai, one of the largest such events in Asia. The four-day show, which wrapped up Monday, drew around 370,000 people.

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