This week:
Newzoo: Metaverse & Blockchain trends of 2022
Stream Hatchet: Streaming Gaming Market Landscape in 2021
GameRefinery: 2022 trends
Nintendo Switch surpassed the 103.5M copies sold milestone
Sensor Tower: 20% of metaverse games are mobile
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Newzoo: Metaverse & Blockchain trends of 2022
Stream Hatchet: Streaming Gaming Market Landscape in 2021
Users have spent 21% more time in 2021 watching gaming streams.
Twitch is the main platform for gaming streams. YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming are far behind.
In 2021 Twitch reached 24.3B of viewed hours. YouTube Gaming - 5B hours, Facebook Gaming - 4.8B hours.
Battle Royale, open-world games, and MOBA are leading the genre’s top.
GTA V is the main game of the year with 2.7B of viewed hours. League of Legends is second (2.01B of hours), Garena Free Fire is third (1.23B of hours). There are 3 mobile games in the top-10 - except Garena Free Fire - PUBG Mobile & Mobile Legends: Bang Bang reached the top.
By Stream Hatchet assumptions, streams earned $811M in Twitch in 2021. There have been around 76.3 thousand streamers on the platform last year.
GameRefinery: 2022 trends
There will be a lot of AAA mobile games in 2022 with cross-platform functionality.
New types of gacha will appear in mobile titles.
Events and mini-games will be more developed and will utilize meta heavily.
Blockchain games will increase their presence in the market.
Nintendo Switch surpassed the 103.5M copies sold milestone
Currently, it’s the most successful home console from Nintendo. The previous record was held by Wii (101.63M). If we’ll consider handhelds too, then the clear leader is Nintendo DS with 154.02M consoles sold.
During the first 9 months of 2021, Nintendo sold 18.95M Nintendo Switch. It’s 21.4% lower than in the same period of 2020.
The best game in 2021 by sales was Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Pokémon Shining Pearl. They’ve sold 13.97M times.
Sensor Tower: 20% of metaverse games are mobile
Out of 552 games on the market that are using the “metaverse” word in the description, 107 are mobile.
In June 2021 only 2 apps added “metaverse” to their description or title. From November 2021 to January 2022 developers of 86 apps did it.
23% of the overall amount of metaverse games are mentioning cryptocurrencies.