Global mobile gaming revenues will overtake host gaming revenues for the first time this year

Global mobile gaming revenues will surpass host gaming revenues for the first time this year, according to a report by Newzoo, a video game research firm published in Thursday. Newzoo expects total sales in the global gaming market to reach $91.95 billion trillion this year. Among them, the global mobile game revenue will reach 30.3 billion dollars, the host game is 26.4 billion dollars. But in the North American market, host games will still dominate.

Newzoo estimates that total game sales for the North American market this year are $24.05 billion trillion. Among them, the host game revenue of 11.1 billion U.S. dollars, mobile game revenue of 7.2 billion U.S. dollars.

"TV or PC games don't go away," Newzoo market analyst Vicente Van Diren (Vincent van Deelen) said, "Each device has a different size of the screen, all have the rationality of existence." The current trend is that the distribution of game spending on four different devices will gradually become even more uniform, eventually reaching TV 25%, PC 25%, Tablet PCs and handheld devices 25%, and mobile 25%. In the United States, the current proportion of game spending is television 44%, PC 26%, tablets and handheld devices 15%, mobile 15%. The share of game spending around the world is closer to theoretical values: TV 28%, PC 39%, tablet and handheld devices 13%, mobile 20%. ”

Apple, Google growth

The continued growth in mobile gaming revenues will make Google and Apple the top five listed companies to be counted by game revenue this year, thanks to the 30% split in Google and Apple from its App store gaming revenues.

Changes in game market patterns have pushed Apple to the first big video game ecosystem. So far, Apple's App store remains the largest single platform in the mobile industry, accounting for half of last year's mobile gaming market revenue, Newzoo said in the report. Google Play closely followed.

"We expect Apple and Google will be close to 4 billion dollars and 3 billion dollars in the gaming market last year," he said. It also explains why the ' other revenue ' in Google's latest quarterly earnings has been growing fast, "said Peter Warman, Newzoo's CEO," as a comparison, Nintendo's game revenue last year was $2.4 billion trillion, which is likely to be slightly lower this year. " ”