{"id":19582,"date":"2018-05-04T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317635"},"modified":"2018-05-04T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:36:00","slug":"analyst-mobile-to-make-up-over-half-of-worldwide-game-revenue-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/analyst-mobile-to-make-up-over-half-of-worldwide-game-revenue-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst: Mobile to make up over half of worldwide game revenue in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

A report released by Newzoo<\/a> breaks down where the firm believes the global game industry will fall revenue-wise by the end of 2018, noting that it expects mobile to account for 51 percent of the predicted $137.9 billion earned by games this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time mobile has brought in more revenue than consoles or PC by a longshot, but this is the first time the platform makes up over half of game revenue on a worldwide scale.<\/p>\n

And while Newzoo\u2019s numbers are just projections based on the current state of the game industry, the information in the company\u2019s report can offer developers a straightforward look at how the industry is changing through the years.<\/p>\n

Looking at revenue generated by mobile, PC, and console games, Newzoo is predicting a year-over-year increase of 13.3 percent from 2017\u2019s numbers, with digital game revenue accounting for 91 percent of that overall, or $125.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Mobile games, meanwhile, are expected to see at least a 25.5 year-over-year increase, generating $70.3 billion and accounting for just over half of the global market for the first time. By 2021, Newzoo expects mobile games to be a $100 billion market on their own and generate 59 percent of the overall worldwide video game market.<\/p>\n

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The full report on Newzoo has a fair amount of other predictions that game developers will likely find interesting. One particular section breaks down what game revenue looks like when broken down by region. Of that $137.9 billion expected to pour in this year, Newzoo believes $37.9 billion of it will come from China, while $30.4 billion is expected from the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even so, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to make up a whopping 52 percent (or $71.4 billion) of global game spending this year, a 16.8 percent increase from 2017\u2019s numbers. A closer look at this data can be found on Newzoo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A report released by Newzoo breaks down where the firm believes the global game industry will fall revenue-wise by the end of 2018, noting that it expects mobile to account for 51 percent of the predicted $137.9 billion earned by games this year.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t the first time mobile has brought in more revenue than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}