MY.GAMES: Russian Gaming Market will grow in 2021 only by 1% - in roubles
However, the whole gaming market will show negative tendency.
Russians will spend on games 165.6B of roubles ($2.25B) in 2021 - it’s 1% higher than in 2020 (163.4B roubles).
In dollars, the market will even fall down from $2.26B of revenue to $2.25B of revenue due to the course correction.
The reason for such numbers covers in previous coronavirus year when the market grew by 35%. The global tendency (due to Newzoo) is that in 2021 the gaming market will show a 1.1% decline.
It’s expected, that in 2022 the Russian market growth will get back to double-digit numbers.
The PC market in Russia in 2021 will earn 78.1B of roubles - about $1,09B (-4.6%).
The mobile market in Russia in 2021 will earn 73.8B of roubles - about $1,03B (+10%)
The console market in Russia in 2021 will earn 13.6B of roubles - about $190M (-5%).F2P is responsible for about 85% of all revenues.