By Joelle Daniels
Copyright gamingbolt
With Tokyo Game Show 2025 having been wrapped up over the weekend, the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association has announced that the event attracted a massive number of attendees over its 4-day run starting on September 25 and ending on September 28. As caught by Gematsu, over the event’s entire duration saw 263,101 attendees.
The first two days of Tokyo Game Show 2025, specially designated as business days and meant to be closer to a trade show where people from the gaming industry could have meetings and network, saw 52,352 and 54,779 attendees respectively. The following to days, designated as general public days, saw 77,415 and 78,555 attendees respectively.
It is worth noting that, when compared to Tokyo Game Show 2024, this year’s event saw slightly fewer attendees. TGS 2024, for context, saw 274,739 attendees. Both this and last year’s events still saw growth over its 2023 edition, however, which got 243,238 attendees. Interestingly, the 2025 version of the event saw more attendees during the business days, but during the general public days when compared to TGS 2024.
For the sake of comparison, Tokyo Game Show 2023 saw 33,706 and 36,109 attendees on its business days, and 96,033 and 77,390 attendees on its general public days.
Along with all of this information, the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association in Japan has also confirmed that next year’s iteration of the event – Tokyo Game Show 2026 – will be held from September 17 to September 21, 2026. This will also make TGS 2025 the first time in history that the event will take place over the course of five days rather than its traditional four-day run. The event will return to Makuhari Messe, Chiba.
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association also celebrated the fact that Tokyo Game Show 2025 featured 1,136 exhibitors from across 47 different countries and regions from all over the year. This, the trade association noted, broke previous records when it came to the number of exhibitors.
While the event itself was considered quite successful thanks to the massive amount of foot traffic it saw over the course of its two general public days, the association also noted that “business negotiations were also highly active”. According to its statement, the two business days saw 3,591 different appointments between various figures from across the gaming industry. The event saw 21 different programs streamed through the event’s official social media handles across YouTube, Twitch and X as well.
This year’s Tokyo Game Show saw quite a few announcements, with some of the bigger ones including Microsoft officially unveiling the next entry in its Forza Horizon franchise – Forza Horizon 6. While not too many details about the game have been revealed as of yet, the teaser trailer did confirm the fact that the Horizon Festival will be taking us to the various streets in the cities, towns and countrysides of Japan and tapping into the country’s unique car culture.
The event was also attended by a host of major companies, including Capcom, Sega, Konami, Koei Tecmo, and PlayStation. The show floor also featured many upcoming titles with hands-on demos, including Resident Evil Requiem running on the Nintendo Switch 2.
