Gen Con LLC. announced that it has broken its previous attendance record at its 2024 convention.
The convention sold out at over 71,000 unique attendees. The previous attendance record was over 70,000 unique attendees at Gen Con 2023 (see “Attendance Breaks 2019 Record“), a show which had broken record from the 2019 numbers (see “Gen Con Releases Attendance“). The show also sported over 540 exhibitors as well as nearly 24,000 events run. The exhibiting companies’ number was actually down from 2023’s show, which had over 570 game publishers and vendors in attendance.
On another note, attendees helped raise over $31,000 for the Rose Gauntlet Foundation and Tangram.
Source: ICv2
