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Tencent has confirmed one million shipments of the Nintendo Switch in China since it launched in December 2019. Tencent is Nintendo's official partner in the Chinese market, and the company said earlier this week that the Switch had passed one million shipments in the country. According to Reuters, a Tencent spokesperson described the figure as "a good start," and that the games officially published for the system have been "well received by the market." However, the official figure is significantly lower than the 1.3 million sales the analyst firm Niko Partners recently estimated for 2020. T...

Somewhat similar to the ESRB and PEGI ratings in the US and Europe respectively, an age rating for games is being introduced in China as well. Backed by major gaming companies like Tencent and NetEase, among others, but also state-owned media outlet People's Daily Online, the hope is that these ratings might actually become a standard used by all publishers in the country. The effective implementation of the system, however, might encounter more resistance than other similar initiatives elsewhere in the World. Why doesn't China have an age rating system already? Unlike many other major market...