This week:
Sensor Tower: Monetisation in 2021
Omdia: Cloud Gaming Market Grew by 3 times in 2021
Steam: 2021 in numbers
Apptica: Released Games in winter 2021-2022 on iOS report
NonFungible & L’Atelier BNP Paribas: Blockchain & NFT 2021 Report
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Sensor Tower: Monetisation in 2021
All of the top-grossing games in 2021 had Season Pass. Its popularity covered not only mid-core projects but also Casual ones - Candy Crush Saga, Homescapes, Gardenscapes.
The majority of projects utilizing NFT or Blockchain are mid-core.
Half of the top-10 games with gacha are based on popular IPs.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang became the largest project with NFT/Blockchain elements. If we’ll talk about games, which were created with NFT/Blockchain in mind, the most number of downloads has Thetan Arena - 7.7M.
Omdia: Cloud Gaming Market Grew by 3 times in 2021
In 2021 cloud gaming earned $3.7B.
Omdia analytics forecasts, that by the end of 2022, the market will grow to $5.2B. By the end of 2026, it is expected to reach $11.9B.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has 16.4M subscribers, PlayStation Now - about 4.4M.
Steam: 2021 in numbers
Platform revenue increased by 27% compared to 2020.
Average MAU - 132M (12M more than in 2020), DAU - 69M.
31.2M new buyers joined Steam in 2021.
The peak number of users in 2021 is 27.4M. This is the all-time record as well.
The number of VR games users increased by 11%.
More PC gamers are using gamepads. In 2020 there were 46.6M, in 2021 this number increased to 48M.
Summer Sale in Steam in 2021 helped to increase developers revenue by 13% compared to the summer sale in 2020. During the Winter Sale, 2.3M users have bought the game on Steam for the first time.
Apptica: Released Games in winter 2021-2022 on iOS report
From December 2021 to February 2022, 11.3% of released apps on the App Store were games.
Action (17.1%), Puzzle (17.1%), and Simulation (12,7%) were top categories during the winter season.
NonFungible & L’Atelier BNP Paribas: Blockchain & NFT 2021 Report
NFT Games revenue in 2021 was $5.17B.
Axie Infinity was responsible for more than half of this sum - $3.5B. NBA Top Shot with $827M of revenue is next.
Metaverses with blockchain elements earned $513.8M.
Blockchain & NFT industry overall earned about $17.6B. It’s 200 times more than in 2020.
The number of NFT buyers increased from 75k in 2020 to 2.3M in 2021.