Weekly Reports Recap: August 30 - September 3
Asphalt 9: Legends surpassed the $100M; Newzoo - about Finnish industry & Kickstarter results.
This week:
App Annie: Asphalt 9: Legends surpassed the $100M revenue plank
Sensor Tower: Among Us led Imposter-themed games to 2,554% growth in H1 2021
Newzoo: About Finnish Gamers & Gaming Market
Videogames collected $13M on Kickstarter in H1 2021
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App Annie: Asphalt 9: Legends surpassed the $100M revenue plank
3 years were required to reach this result. The main countries by revenue are the US, South Korea, China, Japan, and Germany.
Asphalt 9: Legends is at third place in the most successful Racing games of H1 2021. CSR Racing 2 by Zynga is first, Need for Speed: No Limits from EA is second.
Sensor Tower: Among Us led Imposter-themed games to 2,554% growth in H1 2021
This theme showed the highest growth in H1 2021 compared to H1 2020 - startling 2,554%. Games of the Imposter theme earned $8.4M, and 94.3% of this sum belongs to Among Us.
The highest revenue shows Money/Treasure-themed games, which consist of Coin Master and Bingo Blitz.
Sci-Fi setting showed the top dynamic of growth in H1 2021 - by 36% YoY. Setting revenue resulted in $1.2B.
Second by growth setting is History (+29.4% YoY - $651.7M in revenue); third - High Fantasy (+25,6% YoY - $2.8B in revenue).
The most profitable Art Style in H1 2021 was Cartoon 2D art. Games, using this visual style (Candy Crush Saga, Coin Master), earned $6B.
Third-person POV popularity increased by 28% in H1 2021 - thanks to Garena Free Fire & Genshin Impact. Users have spent more than $1B in games with this camera.
Newzoo: About Finnish Gamers & Gaming Market
By the end of 2020, 2.8M gamers lived in Finland.
The gaming market size is about $435M.
86% of users are playing on mobile devices, 77% are using PC, 76% playing on consoles. Male audiences prefer PC & Console to mobile, while 93% of females using mobile as the primary gaming device.
69% of those, who are paying for in-apps in games, made purchases in the last 6 months. Women are more tend to buy in-game currency than men.
Candy Crush Saga, Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft & Call of Duty are the most popular franchises in Finland.
Videogames collected $13M on Kickstarter in H1 2021
It’s the best half of a year since 2015. Better was only H2 2020.
In H1 2021 649 projects were published on Kickstarter. 184 of them reached their financial goals, while 465 remained under-sponsored.
The two most successful titles in H1 2021 are Friday Night Funkin ($2.2M), and Coral Island ($1.6M).