2021: the mobile market is growing, PC and console markets are decreasing, digital surpasses the physical

2021

Games Industry has published an infographic that collects some of the most significant numbers made by the gaming industry in 2021. These include the size of the various markets, which sees the mobile one growing compared to the previous year, and the PC and console ones down. In particular, the console market recorded a -6.6% of revenues, stopping at 50.4 billion dollars, while the decrease in the PC area was only 0.8%, for 36.7 billion dollars. Meanwhile, the mobile market grew 7.3% to $ 93.2 billion, outstripping the combined console and PC markets.

Incidentally, the console sector represents 28% of the market, the PC sector 20% and the mobile sector the remaining 52%. The distance now appears to be incurable.

Looking more in detail, games on smartphones produced 81.5 billion dollars (+ 8.0% compared to the previous year), those on tablets 11.7 billion dollars. dollars (+ 2.6%), browser games for PC stopped at 2.6 billion dollars (-18.2%) and it is their collapse in large part that caused the minus sign on the PC sector in the as a whole, given that otherwise PC video games produced 34.1 billion dollars, growing by 0.9%.

In all this whirlwind of numbers, it should be noted that the digital market has grown further, reaching 93.4% of the cake, for 168.5 billion dollars in revenues, against only 11.8 billion billion of the physical market, which currently accounts for 6.6% of the video game market.

Naturally on the PC the digital market is stronger and produced 98.9% of revenues, against 1.1% of the physical one, but even on consoles the trend is now very clear, given that the The physical market produced only 22.7% of revenues, compared to 77.3% of the digital market.

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