Newzoo & arm: High-fidelity Mobile Games Report
Complex mobile games increased their revenue share by many times since 2016.
It’s fair to say that high-fidelity mobile games, from the Newzoo expert’s perspective, are mobile AAA. They do have complex gameplay, high-quality graphic, and mostly represented by hardcore genres.
In 2020 Mobile AAA games were responsible for 70% of top-200 mobile games revenue in China. For comparison, in 2016 only 42% of mobile games top-200 revenue belonged to them. Top high-fidelity games in China are Honor of Kings, Peacekeeper Elite, and CrossFire Mobile.
In North America, the AAA games in top-200 revenue share increased from 6% in 2016 to 33% in 2020. Top high-fidelity games are ROBLOX, Pokemon Go, PUBG Mobile.
The situation is pretty similar in Europe. High-fidelity games showed growth from 7% of revenue in 2016 to 37% of revenue in 2020 in top-200 mobile games. In 2020 the top-grossing AAA mobile games were Pokemon Go, Brawl Stars, and ROBLOX.
From January 2019 to December 2020 number of high-end smartphones increased sufficiently - from 7.6% to 35.3% globally.
94% of all gamers are playing on mobile.
Newzoo experts are positive that the revenue of the high-fidelity games will continue to grow. PC/Console publishers moving to the mobile market will help it happen.