Newzoo has released the latest quarterly update of its Global Games Market Report, revealing some interesting sales figures about mobile, PC and console gaming. According to the stats, PC gaming remains more profitable than console gaming in 2016. However, mobile gaming has now surpassed everything, and is expected to grow even further in the next couple of years.
As said, Newzoo’s Global Games Market Forecast Model projects gamer numbers and revenues per segment, region and screen on a global, regional and country level. It also shows the share of paying gamers and average spend in the same granularity.
“These projections are analyzed in various ways, comparing year-on-year growth rates, market share, CAGRs and absolute amounts in USD between the regions and segments, as well as the development of specific regions or segments in time. These projections are compared to available third-party sources on a local or global level. Given the pace of the developments in the games industry, Newzoo reviews its conclusions and assumptions every quarter, taking into account newly available data and insights. Before publication of any data, Newzoo also performs validation checks in various ways including comparison against historic internal data, comparison against market figures from alternative sources and validation from several Newzoo clients.”
According to the stats, PC gaming will generate almost $32 billion while PC gaming will grow to $29.0 billion. On the other hand, mobile gaming (spartphones + tablets) is expected to generate $36.9 billion.
You can read more about the global 2016 games sales figures at Newzoo’s official website.
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mobile gaming is not gaming
Not by our standards but it is , and it makes tons of cash
Competition there is simply insane, and it’s not a place for indie developers. Tons of games appearing every day, and most of them won’t get any attention and will not sell.
Lots of developers see these crazy numbers while thinking about profits, but most of the cash is coming from heavily promoted and established franchises.
Moreover, it’s not a place where you can rely on customers’s loyalty. No one will remember your game if he played it somewhere in the bathroom during
dinner break.
Can mobile games be more of a game than a walking simulator? Serious question.
well yeah, there is that pokemon game on ios and android and its better than just walk around some enviroment
Of course it’s gaming, but it’s not my type of gaming, I won’t even watch videos on mobile due to tiny screen, never mind the complete lack of any good controls.
Mobile has more in common with the Wii craze, it’s the modern day equivalent to a newspaper puzzle page, something for passing time while waiting, most mobile gamers will never touch a PC game or console.
gaming is gaming
in the meantime games like vanquish do not coming on PC.
if you want to play the console is the first choice!
smh… just leave the peasant to his memories.
Enjoy your 30fps experience while playing the game!
PC gamers are enjoying Metal Gear Rising, Transformers: Devastation, and other Platinum games in 4K.
I do not care , I care only the quality of the games !
and the PC has only indie,early access and bad console port!
and consoles don’t get PC ports? OK.
Really narrow sighted, misinformed and/or plain and simply wrong. That is way far from “all” that we have. And we’re only getting more…. unlike peasants like you who are getting less and less attention…. good, consoles lasted far more than they ever deserved to.
PS 4.5 is basically saying Sony care more about hardware than games.
Not even that, it is business as usual. Just advertising like saying they’re adding 4k and not mentioning that it is only for video, not games. This will be a fun ride to watch 😀
Let use enjoy tons more great games on PC like:
Pillars of Eternity
Cities Skyline
Assetto Corsa
Starcraft 2
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
Total War: Warhammer
Black Desert Online
Star Citizen
Planet Coaster
Arma 3
XCom 2
Oh and VR, well before Playstation has it.
How can you forget Dreadnought?…. And the other thousands of exclusives. As for Vanquish, soon you’ll either buy it on Steam or you’ll buy the PS3 version in a discount bin somewhere and run it in an emulator. I wonder when he’ll play on PS4? I know it was a hit (sold 800.000 copies on both consoles combined), but I wonder if it will be deemed worth it. 😀
why is sunset overdrive not on pc yet is a big question.
These sales their biggest part is MMOs and that is why developers port games from console versions and our hardware is being held back. If you are a kid that cares about numbers and crying master race then that is good news…
Mobile Gaming ??? so thats how its called now lol, nonsense
them esports and mmo cash shops yo.thats why.why does this same article keep coming up from time to time..
Yes which makes MONEY, doesn’t matter how it’s made it’s money made from games.
there you have it.consoles make more on what matters AAA titles pc still cant touch them
i like how trolls and console fanboys keep referring to MMOs and stuff when we we talk about PC sales, but ignore annual COD/Fifa when it comes to console sales, cause that’s where the majority of console sales comes from. personally i think a good MMO is better than yet another annual cr*p so…
as for mobile gaming, the majority of it’s money comes from pay 2 win baits like a Kim Kardashian game or something so that’s even worse than MMOs or annual titles.
it is a stupid argument because division and destiny are mmos.
You are a sad person 🙂
If it comes to PC, it will be the defenitive version. If it doesn’t, it will be the superior version due to emulators. PS4 gets Lichdom Battlemage. So funny 😀
By the way loser, I can play all games ever made until 2005 in my PC and about 95% of the games made after. You get a paywall to play a really small number at high cost and worst image quality……. You really are retarded (in the true sense of the word….. to be held back).
15,000 people is a minority and I bet you most of those are people who played the game on 360 and ps3 and want a better quality version of it.
If all you own a console for is exclusives, you are admitting the machine itself is worthless. I ditched consoles, because they tried to blackmail me with poxy exclusives.
Whatever you get is an excluded game to me, of no more relevance than Angry Birds, just a name for something I just have no interest in, as it’s not on the platform I chose to own.
I don’t want your ports, you can have those mediocre quality games, I’d rather have mods, across my 2560×1440 screens, and as I have three of them, if I want it, 7680×1440 (11 million pixels, 4K is only 8 million), that makes my paired GPU’s protest, but they grind it out.
in related new the sky is blue and console peasants are clueless
well, clueless as usual, a petition exists for witcher 2 on ps3. the number of people that requested it is tiny, tell me why is that that all those “horrible” pc exlusives that you “dont care about” are going to consoles if you donw want them? Vanquish is an old short game, dragons dogma on the other hand was released on pc, never say never.
Honestly I had fun with the dying light mobile companion app. Was a really cool idea. If fallout 4 had something similar to that where you can manage your settlements remotely and still acquire goods or upgrade the town and get more population that affects the game you’re playing that would be amazing.
Even tho the Vita tanked I still believe in those 2%. Call me crazy but handheld games gotta swing back some day. I never enjoyed mobile games on a cellphone or tablet. Tapping a flat screen just doesn’t feel special compared to smashing an old gameboy’s keys or using the psp stick pad. Yes I know its considered a lost market because all kids got cellphones these days but I believe with ps4 graphics and a well designed controller layout it could jump back.
PC market is now bigger than ever thanks to Denuvo… NOT.
I hate mobile gaming so much. Handhelds are so much better, Vita, 3DS, it doesn’t matter. It’s better.
Both Hitman and FC Primal are stopped around 150k, none got cracked and Hitman’s EP2 didn’t even do s**t, numbers aren’t moving at all, in the mean time DarkSouls 3 a cracked 60$ game sold 800k+ in less than 20 days.
There wasnt any other big AAA releases on PC on April except Dark Souls it is not surprising. On May however we have my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutants in Manhatan and DOOM the return of the legendary FPS. Since both games use online it dosent matter if they will have Denuvo or not because most peoople will buy fhem for online anyway just like they did in Dark Souls 3. Denuvo is important for single player only games not games that foucs on online.
wow, you are a ret*rd.
Welll Just cause 3 is a 5 months old game while rise of the tomb raider is 2 months old. The question now is how many copies had the pc versions of Just Cause 2 and Tomb Raider(2013) had sold at the same time afte their release? We will never know because Steam Spy didnt exist then but there is no doubt that many people who pirated Just cause 2 and Tomb Raider bought JC3 and Rise of the tomb raider because that the only way to play them. I can confirm this from my personal experince since 3 of my friends that are big pirates and almost never buy anything told me that they will buy both JC3 and Rise of the tomb raider soon because they got tired of waiting so long for a crack. And while these are only 3 people there are a lot more who think like them. If you go to pirate forums you will see more and more comments from people who say that they bought or that they are going to buy a Denuvo game because they can not wait any longer.
Also Mad Max is older than Just cause 3. It was released on September 2015 while Just Cause 3 came on December so it is normal for a older game to have mroe sales. And don forget that Mas Max while it got cracked it took about 1 month until it is fully cracked. Ubisoft games like Far Cry Primal Asssasin Creed e.t.c ,make most of their sales from Uplay and retail not steam because there is no reason for someone to buy them from steam since the game will use Uplay anyway. So dont be surprised when you see low sales of a Ubisoft game on Steam. Rise of the tomb raier that is also uncracked is a much more popular francise than Just Cause will ever be so dont be surprised that it sells more than it. In 3 weeks my new game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutantns in Manhatan is coming and it will top steam charts and beat all games in sales. I and my Foot Ninja army will destroy all competition! Nothing can compete against it. NOTHING
4 years really? An average life of a console is 6 years. And pcs are a lot more expensive than consoles and the average life is 4 years or less.
Well, Mad Max took a lot of time to crack anyway… but I agree on your point.