The Mobile Game Trend
Recently, mobile gaming has been gaining a rather large share in terms of revenue. Gaming consoles/platforms and online gaming giants have dominated the game industry for the last decades, but with the enormous mobile gaming insurgents, change is definitely coming and change is welcome especially for avid gamers and enthusiasts.
Mobile games revenue forecast is predicted to increase up to $45 billion by 2018. Asia has been the leader in the industry since 2013, and is predicted to dominate the industry by up to 50% total revenue. Industry Analyst Vincent van Deelen stated, “This is simply not the case. We are also emphasizing that the recent results of individual high profile companies such as Rovio, King, DeNA and GREE are not necessarily indicative of the state of the mobile market as a whole. It is not in our interest to inflate market figures, but the hard facts have forced us to adjust our estimates upward. We have maintained our year-on-year growth rates toward 2017, ultimately leading to a $40Bn+ market share.”
In this regard, mobile game players have successfully gained large share in the market like most gaming console and online gaming companies. Indeed, this is good news for game development companies and their shareholders to put more focus and emphasis on this growing trend. Android games are also expected to be predictably higher in the coming years. Though, it is still a proven fact that iOS rakes in more revenue than Google Play despite the latter having massive download for freemium model type of games. But in a global perspective, Chinese app stores and android game downloads and revenue far exceeded iOS last 2014. North America, Europe and other Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea have also ventured in the global trend. Reports show that mobile games now account for nearly 40% of the country’s total digital games revenue. With increased competition, smaller companies are also getting creative with the introduction of e-sports, multi-screen gaming and HTML5 mobile gaming, and the final trend is the rising popularity of downloading Android games for TV-based gaming. The top 7 companies in the mobile gaming industry compete for the release of quality games to dominate further and not to get left behind in the scene. These are some of the most downloaded game apps:
1. aa
2. Agar.io
3. Angry Birds
4. Angry Birds Rio
5. Angry Birds Seasons
6. Angry Birds Space
7. Angry Birds Star Wars
8. Angry Birds Star Wars 2
9. Angry Birds Go!
10. Angry Birds 2
11. Ant Smasher: Best Free Game
12. Archery Master 3D
13. Asphalt 8: Airborne
14. Bad Piggies
15. Bad Piggies HD
16. Banana Kong
17. Basketball Stars
18. Blossom Blast Saga
19. Boom Beach
20. Brave Frontier
21. Bubble Witch Saga
22. Bubble Witch 2 Saga
23. Candy Crush Saga
24. Candy Crush Soda Saga
25. Cars: Fast as Lightning
26. Castle Clash: Age of Legends
27. Clash of Clans
28. Clash of Kings
29. Clash Royale
30. Color Switch
31. Criminal Case
32. Crossy Road
33. CSR Racing
34. Deer Hunter
35. Despicable Me
36. Diamond Dash
37. Diamond Digger Saga
38. Don’t Tap The White Tile
39. Dragon City
40. Drag Racing Classic
41. Dream League
42. Dumb Ways to Die
43. Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games
44. Extreme Car Driving Simulator
45. Fast Racing 3D
46. Frozen Freefall
47. Geometry Dash
48. Geometry Dash Lite
49. Farm Heroes Saga
50. FIFA 15 Ultimate
51. Flow Free
52. Fruit Ninja Free
53. Glow Hockey
54. Hay Day
55. Hearthstone Heroes of Warcraft
56. Hill Climb Racing
57. Hungry Shark
58. Jetpack Joyride
59. Jewels Saga
60. Magic Rush: Heroes
61. Minecraft: Pocket Edition
62. MORTAL KOMBAT X
63. My Talking Angela
64. My Talking Tom
65. Pou
66. 8 Ball Pool
67. Pet Rescue Saga
68. Piano Tiles 2 (Don’t Tap…2)
69. Plants vs. Zombies
70. Plants vs. Zombies 2
71. Real Racing 3
72. Score! Hero
73. Shadow Fight 2
74. SimCity BuildIt
75. Skater Boy
76. Slither.io
77. Smash Hit
78. Smurfs’ Village
79. Solitaire
80. Sonic Dash
81. Spider-man Unlimited
82. Stack
83. Star Girl
84. Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
85. Subway Surfers
86. Summoners War
87. Talking Tom Bubble Shooter
88. Temple Run
89. Temple Run 2
90. Texas Holdem Poker Deluxe
91. The Simpsons: Tapped Out
92. Throne Rush
93. Traffic Racer
94. Traffic Rider
95. Trivia Crack
96. Vector
97. Zombie Tsunami
98. Z War
99. 2048
100. 2048 Number
This is a clear indicator that mobile gaming market share is expected to grow in the coming years.