{"id":15670,"date":"2017-01-24T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2018-06-04T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:06:47","slug":"mobile-tops-chinas-game-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/mobile-tops-chinas-game-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"China Mobile Game Tops PC Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to China market research firm iResearch, mobile gaming became the largest market segment in the game industry in 2016. \u00a0iResearch pegs the number of China mobile game players at 521 million, while the number of PC game players was only 484 million.
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Overall China game industry revenue\u00a0<\/span>was up 23% to 177 billion Yuan (over $25 billion USD). \u00a0Of that revenue 56%\u00a0<\/span>was mobile games. This marked the first time that mobile games surpassed PC\u00a0<\/span>games in iResearch’s estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact:\u00a0The China market is hard to nail down exactly and many firms will have\u00a0different estimates when it comes to market size. For the past decade, DFC\u00a0Intelligence has worked with iResearch and found their estimates to be the\u00a0most realistic and detailed. This is because the company 1) focuses on\u00a0tracking actual consumer behavior across a large sample base (millions of\u00a0users) and 2) tends to be conservative in their forecasts and able to avoid\u00a0the latest hype. The growth of mobile games in China is no surprise and the\u00a0main issue is what will be the longer term impact on the China game market.\u00a0DFC agrees with iResearch that as PC gaming has started to level off, mobile\u00a0gaming will also mature in the next year or two. \u00a0The end result is a\u00a0leveling off in the China game market. Of course, this is not a decline and\u00a0more a sign of a maturing market. When you reach such mass appeal it is\u00a0hard to have year-over-year double digit growth. The China market is still\u00a0likely to grow but it is fast becoming a mature business with entrenched\u00a0market players that new would be entrants will need to clearly understand.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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