While mobile player spending is declining globally, some titles continue to grow in sales. Here are 11 other games that are expected to hit $2 billion in revenue by 2023.
Data shared by data.ai, which recently released its Mobile App Revenue Forecast report shares a lot of interesting information. Analysts predict mobile game downloads will fall 5% year-on-year in 2022 to $110 billion. Global revenue is also forecast to decline another 3% in 2023 to $107 billion.
The economic downturn was the main cause of the decrease in player spending. Data.ai also cites IDFApocalypse and upcoming privacy changes from Google as other major factors that have a negative impact on user acquisition. This forecast is in line with what other analysts have announced. For example, Newzoo expects the global games market to decline for the first time in 15 years, reaching $184.4 billion by 2022. Mobile games are down 6.4% year-on-year to $184.4 billion by 2022. $92.2 billion.
The top 11 games that will surpass the $2 billion mark by 2023 are announced. Despite all these obstacles, Data.ai says 14 apps will surpass $2 billion in consumer spending next year. 11 of them are games:
+ Tencent: Call of Duty Mobile – the mobile version of Activision’s flagship franchise, surpassed $1.5 billion in revenue earlier this year;+ FunPlus: State of Survival – a free-to-play strategy game by Chinese developer KingsGroup reached 150 million downloads in September;+ Konami: Pro Yakyū Spirits A – baseball game, part of Professional Baseball Spirits series;+ Playrix: Township – farm building game , still the company’s third most downloaded game, right behind Homescapes and Gardenscapes;+ Cygame: Uma Musume Pretty Derby – a life simulation/horse racing game based on the popular Japanese media franchise of the same name Version;+ NetEase: Onmyoji – 3D role-playing/strategy game by one of China’s largest technology companies, first launched in 2017;+ Netmarble: Marvel Contest of Champions – fighting game by Kabam developer, is the second highest-grossing mobile action game of 2021;+ Zynga: Empires & P uzzles developed by Finnish studio Small Giant Games, this Match-3/battler has generated over $500 million in just two years and continues to grow in the following years;+ Supercell: Brawl Stars – one of the company’s biggest successes, surpassing the $1 billion mark last year;+ Playtika: Bingo Blitz – a free board and card game that was initially a success on Facebook before coming to iOS and Android in 2012. ;+ Elex Tech: Clash of Kings – MMO strategy game, especially popular in China.
One of the highlights here is Uma Musume Pretty Derby as Data.ai pointed out the game is set to become one of the fastest mobile games ever to hit the $2 billion mark, just 2 years after its release. eye. It is worth noting that seven of the 11 games on the list are developed or published by Asian companies. Analysts also predict that 4 titles Call of Duty: Mobile, Township, State of Survival and Uma Musume Pretty Derby could reach $2 billion in revenue by the end of 2022.
According to data.ai, three games will join the $3 billion gaming group by 2023: IGG Inc’s Lords Mobile Lilith Games, Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade’s and Playtika’s Slotomania.