Figures released by Tokyo Game Show this week indicate that attendance of the show's public days has dropped significantly over last year's -- about 15%, on average.
On the first public day of the 2006 show, 84,823 visitors streamed through the doors. This year, it was a mere 64,795.
TGS was technically able to set a new attendance record by adding another day to the show, but look past that smokescreen of a number and you'll see what really happened. If you need any more proof of the growing irrelevance of a Nintendoless Tokyo Game Show, you've got it.
Intriguingly enough, attendance on Sunday didn't drop nearly as much -- and the reason why is that the number of small children at the show rose by nearly fifty percent over last year's final day: 15,347
kids vs. 10,637. That's an incredibly significant increase that will likely mean an expansion of the kids' section next year.
