On The Up
Mobile digital games market up 6% in January 2021
Garena Free Fire proved to be the most lucrative mobile title
Company Profile
SuperData Research
Website www.superdataresearch.com/
About
Founded by veteran games industry researchers, SuperData is the world’s leading provider of market intelligence covering the entire video game market across mobile, PC, and console. SuperData offers quantitative and qualitative insights on free-to-play gaming, digital console, mobile, PC downloadable, streaming media, eSports, and virtual reality.
How we do what we do
Through proprietary data partnerships, we collect point-of-sale and instance data from publishers, developers, and payment service providers. This allows us to base our analyses on the monthly spending of over 78 million unique, paying digital gamers, worldwide. This makes us the only provider to offer insights into the age of personal media using transaction-level data that is truly comprehensive and cross-platform.
Who we work with
Everyone. Media is becoming more personal, creating a cross-platform world of immersive and interactive experiences. With our data and insights, we guide the strategy of major publishers, developers, brands, hardware makers, venues, investors, and everyone else with a stake in the evolving consumer.
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Top Dog
SuperData: Oculus Quest 2 shifted 1 million units in Q4
"The Quest 2 benefitted from a lower price than its predecessor"
An Imposter!
Among Us shifts over three million Switch copies in one month
It came to the platform in December 2020
Mobile Madness
The mobile digital games market was up 5% in December
Pokemon Go was the top-grossing title
Money Money Money
Digital games spending hit $126.6 billion in 2020
The majority was generated via mobile
Going Digital
The digital games market grew 15 per cent in November
Mobile was up nine per cent year-on-year
An Imposter!
Among Us hit 500 million monthly active users in November
Majority of users are on mobile
Make An Impact
Genshin Impact was the highest-grossing digital title in October 2020
Mobile spending was up 15 per cent year-on-year
Going Virtual
SuperData: Oculus quest was the best-selling VR headset last quarter
Investment in VR and AR firms will hit $915 million this year
Money Money Money
Pokemon Go had its second best month ever for revenue in July 2020
Due to Pokemon Go Fest
Stand Alone
SuperData thinks that publishers are doing fine without E3
Research firm sees triple-A firms drawing big audiences with online shows
Money Money Money
SuperData: XR will generate $6.9bn in 2020
That's $600m more than previously predicted, but well below the $7.7bn it had originally forecast
Money Money Money
Digital games made $10.46 billion in June 2020
Game or Peace was mobile's top-grossing title
Digital Data
SuperData: Digital games spending dropped 3% to $10.2 billion in May 2020
A 14 per cent year-on-year increase for mobile
17% Overall Growth
SuperData: Games spending cracks $10.5 billion in April, mobile up 14%
Kongregate's Peacekeeper earns highest-grossing title for the month
Dropping Numbers
SuperData reduces XR spending estimates by $1.4bn for 2020
Firm reckons $6.3bn will be spent this year
Super Effective
SuperData: Pokemon GO revenue evolved by 18% to $111 million in March 2020
Honor of Kings tops mobile digital sales
Money Money Money
Coin Master saw its best month for revenue ever in February 2020
Mobile revenue for February 2020 was up 16 per cent year-on-year
"questionable Methodology"
Epic Games disputes SuperData Fortnite performance numbers
"SuperData's reports do not align with reality."
Making Money
Honour of Kings was the top-grossing mobile game in January 2020
Gardenscapes had its best month with $111.9 million
Superdata 2019 Summary
Pokemon GO, Candy Crush Saga and Honor of Kings push mobile to $64.4 billion revenue in 2019
Free-to-play model continues to grow across all platforms
Dropping Numbers
Microtransactions down for console, steady for PC, only rising for mobile games
Superdata's data
Data
Preteens start with tablets and move to console
87 per cent of parents think games are educational
Superdata Chart
Digital revenue driven by mobile to a 5% year-on-year increase to $9.02 billion in July
Honour of Kings was the top-grossing game on mobile last month
Spectating Trends
Mobile the most popular games platform among millennials
Millennials are also spending the most money on games per month
Job News
SuperData co-founder Janelle Benjamin departs
"You were the one who brought the discipline and structure to this whole operation that allowed us to grow," said fellow co-founder van Dreunen
Digital World
Tencent’s Perfect World was the top grossing mobile game globally in March 2019
Honor of Kings follows in second place
Predicting Trends
SuperData launching digital game forecasting tool
The Forecaster can predict metrics such as MAUs, revenue and in-game spending
Revenue Dropping Boys
Fortnite revenue declines 48% month-on-month in January
Peak month in december though
Cash Cows
Pokemon Go world's top grossing mobile game in November
SuperData top 10 grossers includes Puzzle & D
Data
Tencent maintains a firm grasp on SuperData’s top 10 grossing mobile games chart in August
Publisher dominates a chart virtually unchanged over the last two months
Super Purchase
Nielsen snaps up market research outfit SuperData
No figure put on the deal
Lucky Draw
Mobile users account for 71% of the $1.5 billion digital card games market
Hearthstone leads the charge on a market expected to grow to $2 billion by 2020
A Pretty Penny
Fortnite hits $1 billion through in-game purchases across mobile, PC and console
Viewers racked up 574 million hours watching Fornite in May alone
On The Go
Pokemon Go racks up $104 million as player base reaches its highest level since 2016
The game has surged 174 per cent year-on-year in time for summer
Not Bad
Tencent's Honour of Kings made $185 million in April 2018
Fortnite meanwhile generates $296 million across platforms
Not Bad
Fortnite made $223 million across all platforms in March
Revenue was up 73 per cent from February according to SuperData
Superdata 2017 Year In Review
Tencent's megahit mobile MOBA Honor of Kings generated $1.9 billion in revenues in 2017
SuperData Research looks back on the year that was
Mobile Grossing Charts December 2017
Honor of Kings remained the highest grossing mobile game in the world in December 2017
SuperData Research shares its monthly grossing charts
Top Grossers October 2017
Honor of Kings topped the worldwide top grossing mobile charts again in October 2017
Fantasy Westward Journey falls back to second place
Top Grossing September 2017
Fantasy Westward Journey overtakes Honor of Kings as top grossing mobile game in September 2017
First time in three months that Honor of Kings hasn't made more money than every other game
Games Market August 2017
Worldwide mobile games market grew by 13% in August 2017
Top grossing games remain largely the same
Lineage Leaps
Lineage M was the third-highest grossing mobile game worldwide in July 2017
Only launched in South Korea at the tail end of June
Top Grossing Games H1 2017
Honor of Kings is the highest-grossing mobile game worldwide for 2017 so far
Some interesting entries in the rest of the rankings
Superdata Top Grossing June 2017
Honor of Kings was the top grossing mobile game worldwide in June 2017
SuperData reckons it generated $150 million in revenues for the month
Pokemon Gone
Pokemon GO dropped out of the worldwide top 10 grossing ranks for the first time in May 2017
SuperData Research breaks out its worldwide report yet again
Back In Action
Hearthstone recovers from revenue woes as Clash Royale continues to be the top grossing mobile game
SuperData Research reveals the biggest earners of April 2017
Up The Ante
Social casino players spend $39.87 in-game a month and play for 57 minutes per session
SuperData takes a closer look at social casino games
Digital Games Market March 2017
Lineage 2 Revolution dropped from the top of the worldwide mobile grossing ranks to 10th in March 2017
Clash Royale takes the top spot instead
Behind The Total
Why it matters App Annie, Newzoo and Superdata can’t agree on the size of the mobile game market
And what they should do about it