Analyst ampere Analysis today released an industry report on the global hosting market for 2021, claiming that the global hosting market revenue reached a record high of $60 billion in 2021.
Although revenue was record-breaking, the hosting market was still affected by supply shortages, with revenue improvements primarily due to higher prices for new consoles and growth in subscription-based services.
Ampere Analysis forecasts revenue of more than $61 billion in 2022.
The analysis report pointed out that Sony accounted for 46% of the total revenue of the market, Nintendo's revenue share fell by 2% compared with 2020, to 29%, and Microsoft's share was 25%, an increase of 1% compared with the previous year.
Subscription-based services accounted for a 20% year-over-year increase in revenue and 19% of total console content revenue.
Impacted by digital games and purely digital consoles, the share of physical games is below 30% for the first time ever.
The bulk of physical game sales are games on the Switch platform, and Ampere Analysis notes that Nintendo still lags behind other platform vendors in digital game downloads, in-game purchases and subscription services.