Which dominate how games get on iPhones and Android-based smartphones, respectively, as they take a significant cut of game revenue that passes through their app stores. Mobile growth is also good news for smartphone and tablet-based game distributors like Apple Inc. Outside of China, the mobile gaming market is dominated by companies like Activision Blizzard Inc. China only makes up about 1% of the console market, Ward noted, while it’s the largest contributor to mobile growth in the Asia/Pacific region, where that segment’s revenues are forecast to rise nearly 25% from a year ago, to $56.6 billion.Īccount for more than half the market share of China’s mobile gaming market.
Read: Videogames are about to get more expensive for the first time in 15 yearsĬhina’s recently lifted ban on gaming consoles also contributes to the dominance of mobile games. In the middle lies PC gamers, since their play requires a multifunction device that’s more common than consoles but less common than smartphones, IDC’s Ward said. Switch, which can run from $300 to $500 before supply-constrained markups.
Mobile phones, which serve as the primary online connection for billions of people world-wide, can be cheap - or free with a usage plan - unlike dedicated gaming consoles such as Sony’s PlayStation 5, Microsoft’s new Xbox line and Nintendo Co.’s Excluding in-game ad revenue, world-wide mobile gaming revenues are expected to surge 24% from a year ago, to $87.7 billion.Ī big reason why mobile game revenue is expected to widen its already large lead over console- and PC-based games in 2020 is a matter of economics.
The biggest gain is expected to come from mobile gaming, with China playing a big role in smartphone and tablet gaming revenue, Ward said. While console sales will get a boost from new versions, that’s not the biggest chunk of the industry, nor the fastest-growing. With the rise of digital-copy game sales, mobile games, in-app purchase freemium games, cross-platform games that aren’t limited to a specific console, streaming game services like Microsoft’s Game Pass, games-as-a-subscription models, and online distribution services like Steam, along with varying levels of transparency, anyone wanting to make apples-to-apples comparisons encounters an unwieldy fruit basket. Gone are the days when all one had to track were console sales and games sold for their respective consoles and PCs. The videogame industry has boomed in recent years because of the variety of ways to play games.
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