Sensor Tower: Sports & Racing games Report
The Sports genre is showing an increase in revenue, while the Racing genre is stagnating.
Sports games achieved $2B revenue in 2020 and showed the 40.2% growth YoY.
2020 wasn’t so good for Racing games in terms of revenue, it remained more or less unchanged. But in terms of Downloads, the genre increased by 22,3% and reached 1.9B of downloads.
Japan is the best market for Football and Baseball games, while Chinese players spent the most on Basketball titles. In the US Golf, Fishing, and Alternative Sports games are feeling great.
The majority of Sports games players are male (about 75%).
Cart Games are driving the whole Racing genre. 3 of 5 games of this sub-genre are on top in terms of revenue. And the leader here is Mario Kart Tour.
Link to the full version of the report.