Gamescom 2024 Ends Partly on a Record Hight and a Great Mood
335,000 visitors, including 32,000 trade visitors, 1462 exhibitors, 71 percent of whom came from abroad - gamescom 2024 closes with impressive figures, some of which are new records. More importantly, the industry left Cologne with renewed optimism and can look forward to a comeback in 2025.
In the end, there was no new overall attendance record. A total of 335,000 people from 120 countries came to gamescom in Cologne this year. That's 15,000 more than last year, but still almost 40,000 fewer than in the record year of 2019 (in German), before the coronavirus pandemic. But gamescom has changed a lot since then. Whereas before Covid-19 it was all about being there, gamescom is now a 360-degree event that is as firmly anchored in the digital world as it is in the trade fair grounds on the banks of the Rhine.