Weekly Reports Recap: June 27 - July 1
Steam first half of 2022 statistics; first billions for Nintendo & Bytedance; people are watching more streams again.
This week:
StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Stream views hours are rising again
Sensor Tower: Bytedance Gaming branch earned $1B+ last year
Newzoo: Metaverse, NFT & Blockchain trends in gaming in 2022
data.ai: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 effect on the mobile franchise games
Sensor Tower: Fire Emblem Heroes is the first Nintendo game with $1B+ revenue
Video Game Insights: Steam H1 2022 statistics
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StreamElements & Rainmaker.gg: Stream views hours are rising again
May was the first month in 2022 when the number of stream views went up.
Twitch grew from 1.782B hours watched to 1.808B. Facebook Gaming - from 335M to 350M.
League of Legends is the most popular game of May (156M watched hours), GTA V is second (120M watched hours), and Valorant is third (95M watched hours).
Streams with slots went to the top 10 for the first time. People watched how others were playing gambling games for 39M hours.
Sensor Tower: Bytedance Gaming branch earned $1B+ last year
From 21 June 2021 to 20 June 2022 games of Bytedance studios were downloaded 139M times. Their revenue passed $1B. Third-party Android stores are not included.
The best month was December 2021, when all studios earned $94.3M.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is the most successful title of Bytedance. It was responsible for 56% of all downloads, and 32% of revenue last year.
34% of Bytedance gaming revenue came from Japan. 25% of downloads - are from Indonesia.
Bytedance is owning Ohayoo, Nuverse, Moontoon, and C4 Connect studios.
Newzoo: Metaverse, NFT & Blockchain trends in gaming in 2022
More than 500 companies in the world are working on the metaverses.
There are few relevant numbers in the report.
However, sharing the main trends:
Big Tech & brands are following the hype.
A metaverse is a great place for musicians.
Newzoo is sure that AA-AAA Blockchain games with a close to traditional gaming gameplay is around the corner.
People are gathering in P2E Guilds to “work” in metaverses.
Crypto-adopters are sure, that blockchain will help developers to transfer items from one game to another.
data.ai: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 effect on the mobile franchise games
Effect on Sonic Forces: Speed Battle
Despite being the 5 years old game, Sonic Forces: Speed Battle was downloaded 4.6M times in April 2022. It’s a record since launch, downloads increased by 160% MoM.
The game reached eight place by downloads, and fourth place by revenue in the Runner category.
In April 2022 revenue grew by 135% compared to the previous month. This is the most successful moth since launch.
Other titles effect
Downloads increased in Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic Dash, and Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom. However, the majority of players interest gathered Sonic Forces: Speed Battle.
Sensor Tower: Fire Emblem Heroes is the first Nintendo game with $1B+ revenue
Fire Emblem Heroes is currently generating 54.5% of overall Nintendo’s mobile revenue.
Other grossing titles for Nintendo are Mario Kart Tour ($282M), and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp ($281.6M).
Fire Emblem Heroes is #4 in Nintendo’s mobile portfolio by downloads (17.8M - 2.7% of overall publisher downloads). Super Mario Run is first (310.7M downloads - 47% of overall publisher downloads).
In Q1 2022 Fire Emblem Heroes earned $29M, it’s 50.7% of Nintendo’s mobile revenue. Despite this fact, there were only 121k new downloads of the game in the quarter.
Japan is the key market for Fire Emblem Heroes, it’s responsible for 54% of the revenue ($540.6M), and 47% of downloads (8.4M). The US (32.4%), and Canada (3.2%) are the next countries by revenue.
Google Play is responsible for 58.3% of revenue ($583.7M); App Store - for 41.7% ($417.3M).
Video Game Insights: Steam H1 2022 statistics
6,015 games were published on Steam in the first half of 2022. It’s 11% more than in H1 2021.
5,895 out of released 6,015 are from indie developers. 75% of them have a price tag of less than $10. Only 56 games have a price of $40+.
80% of released in H1 2022 games earned less than $5,000.
There are 1,195 games released in H1 2022 that earned more than $5,000. 48% of them have a price tag from $10 to $19.99.
Developers continue to release the same genres they’ve been released in 2022.
70 games released in 2022 made more than $1M in Steam. The Elden Ring is first with 8M copies and about $380M of revenue.
It’s interesting that in the H1 2022 top-10 grossing in Steam, there are 4 indie projects (Dread Hunger, V Rising, Raft, and Core Keeper).