According to a survey conducted in July 2022 among smartphone gamers in Japan who spend money on games, one out of five respondents had spent between one to three thousand Japanese yen on smartphone games within the past month. The share of people who spent more than 10 thousand yen amounted to 16 percent.
Monthly expenditure on smartphone games in Japan as of July 2022
(in Japanese yen)
among respondents who spent money on smartphone games within the past month
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
*The original sample size consisted of 2,103 respondents who played smartphone games at least once a month, of which 501 spent money on smartphone games within the past month.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.74 U.S. dollars or 0.70 euros as of December 2022.
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Cross Marketing. (July 21, 2022). Monthly expenditure on smartphone games in Japan as of July 2022 (in Japanese yen) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 31, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/655110/japan-smartphone-gamers-spending-mobile-games/
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