Report: Mobile RPGs generated $18.5b globally in 2020
Jeffrey Rousseau
Staff Writer
Thursday 6th January 2022
Newzoo
Yesterday Newzoo along with mobile app advertising platform Pangle, reported that mobile RPGs generated $18.5 billion in consumer spending for the year of 2020.
In their Role-Playing Games: Comparing and Contrasting Eastern and Western Markets report the companies said that the genre also accounted for 21.3% of global mobile market revenue in the same period.
The popularity of the genre isn't evenly spread around the world, as the report found East Asian countries made up 72% of global mobile RPG consumer spending in 2020.
It goes on to say that Eastern Asian countries made up 72% of total global mobile RPG consumer spending in 2020.
The top three mobile revenue markets were China, Japan, and South Korea. Chinese consumers led with $7.8 billion in spending, Japanese users generated $3.46 billion, and South Korean player revenue was $2.04 billion.
Additionally, the report provided demographic insight regarding of the users whom play mobile RPGs.
Across the markets in America, the UK, Japan, and South Korea most RPG players are male and the median age of 30.
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