data.ai : Royal Match will be the highest-grossing mobile game for the third quarter, surpassing Honor of Kings and Candy Crush Saga in revenue
Analytical company data.ai She shared preliminary figures on the mobile games market for the third quarter of 2023, which will end on September 30. We have selected the main thing from the report.
Revenue:
According to analysts, gamers from all over the world will spend $20 billion on mobile games in July-September. This is about $300 million less than in the third quarter of 2022;
▪️most of the amount will be for games from the App Store — $11.8 billion. Google Play users will spend $8.2 billion;
The leader in revenue will be Match-3 Royal Match from the Turkish studio Dream Games, which will displace the hit Honor of Kings from the first place. She will fall to third place. The second place will go to Candy Crush Saga.
Downloads:
▪️mobile games will be downloaded 15.1 billion times in the third quarter, which is 100 million less compared to last year;
▪️Google Play users should generate 5.5 times more downloads than App Store users. They will download games 12.8 billion times;
The top three leaders in the top downloads will not change much. As in the second quarter, the first two lines will go to Free Fire and Subway Surfers, only the titles will change places — Free Fire will come out on top this time. As for the third place, it will be taken by ROBLOX.
