Sensor Tower: Mobile Games earned $21B in Q1 2022
Mobile gaming market bullish growth discontinued.
Users spent $32.5B on mobile apps overall. About 64% of this amount is on games.
Despite the large number, mobile games revenue went down by 7.1% compared to Q1 2021.
App Store revenue was $12.9B (-2.3% YoY); Google Play - $8.1B (-13.8% YoY).
Three top-grossing games on App Store in Q1 2022 were from Chinese developers. Honor of Kings ($735.4M) was first; PUBG Mobile ($643M) - second; Genshin Impact ($551M) was third.
The situation is different on Google Play. First place by revenue belongs to Lineage W; Coin Master & Candy Crush Saga are next.
Downloads in Q1 2022 increased by 2.1% YoY and reached 14.4B. 12.1B of this amount came from Google Play (+2.5% YoY). The remaining 2.3B are from App Store, which didn’t show growth.
The largest amount of downloads - 71.2M - experienced Garena Free Fire.