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

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