The Tokyo Game Show is over, and the dynamic duo, Scott Jones and John Teti, will soon be home enjoying all that North America has to offer. But while they imagine making love to giant Chocobo’s and Slimes, we ponder the reason why attendance for this year’s TGS doesn’t match up to 2008 and 2007 (total number of people).

 Kotaku has a nice break down of attendance numbers for every day of this year’s show and compares it to the same days in 2008 and 2007. So let’s have some fun with math, shall we?

Business Day 1 - 2009: 27,435 people, 2008: 27,435 people, 2007: 29,783 people

Business Day 2 - 2009: 24,605 people, 2008: 24,178 people, 2007: 32,390 people

Public Day 1 - 2009: 61,138 people (9,579 kids), 2008: 71,639 people (9,207 kids), 2007: 64,795 people (11,829 kids)

Public Day 2 - 2009: 71,852 people (12,369 kids), 2008: 71,166 people (13,963 kids), 2007: 66,072 people (15,347 kids)

Total Attendance - 2009: 185,030 people, 2008: 194,288 people, 2007: 193,040 people

So while the numbers vary by each day, according to these figures, total attendance numbers are short by a considerable number. The weakness this year seems to be among “business” and kids, who apparently decided that they had better things to do. Hay, if Nintendo isn’t going to show, why should you?

Source: Kotaku