Us market research company Sensor Tower recently released the latest information on global mobile game sales in 2021. The data released this time, statistics from the end of January 2021 to December 14, mainly for players to list this year's revenue (player expenditure) more than $1 billion of eight mobile games. Compared with only five games with more than $1 billion in 2020 and only three in 2019 and 2018, the growth can be said to be very amazing. Let's take a look!
According to the official sales statistics, the two mobile games with the highest revenue this year, pubic M and Glory of Kings, have revenues of $2.8 billion, an increase of 9%/14.7% respectively over last year. As for the third place, it was occupied by Miha you's "Original God" with sales of 1.8 billion US dollars. Since its launch in September 2020, "Original God" has been continuously updated with content, and in stimulating the contribution of players, the game has generated more than $2.4 billion in revenue on the global dual platform so far.
In addition, others including "Roblox", "Coin Master", "Pokémon GO", "Candy Legends" and "I want to live" also made the list. And among them, "Roblox", "Coin Master", "Pokémon GO" are all familiar faces that have entered the top six for two consecutive years, which shows that although the game has been launched for a long time, it still has a huge loyal fan to continue to support. Among them, "Pokémon GO" has entered its fifth year, but this year generated $1.2 billion in revenue (the highest in the calendar year), which shows that the enthusiasm of the game's player base has not diminished.
In addition, Sensor Tower also pointed out that although the mobile phone market this year was adversely affected by Apple's iOS restrictions on IDFA (advertising identification number) and program tracking, there was additional growth in sales based on last year's results. In total, players spend about 12.6% more on mobile games this year than the previous year, and by the end of 2021, global mobile game spending will reach about $89.6 billion.