Games Convention Online brings in 43,000 offline visitors
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Aug 4th 2009 2:00AM
The revamped Leipzig games convention, now
Games Convention Online, welcomed
43,000 attendees in its inaugural year. That's not a bad turnout for a show entirely devoted to online, browser and mobile games. For the sake of comparison, the attendance was still higher than this year's
41,000 at E3 '09 (which, to be fair, is not open to the public).
Games Convention Online plans to return next year and, according to a survey taken during the show, a little under 90 percent of exhibitors plan to return. Perhaps by next year the show will hit its projected target of 50,000 attendees. Now, all eyes turn to Cologne, Germany, where
Gamescom kicks off in a couple weeks.
[Via
Big Download]
