Analysts: global game sales totaled US $184 billion this year, with mobile games accounting for 49% of the market.

CTOnews.com news on December 22, Newzoo, a market research and analysis agency, recently reviewed and summarized the game market in 2023. The report shows that the total sales of the game market in 2023 are US $184 billion (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 1.31 trillion yuan), an increase of 0.6% compared with 2022. The details are as follows:

Mobile games account for 49% of the market, with sales of $90.4 billion (currently about 645.456 billion yuan)

The mainframe platform accounts for 29% of the market, with sales of $53.2 billion (currently about 379.848 billion yuan)

PC platform accounts for 21% of the market, with sales of $38.4 billion (currently about 274.176 billion yuan)

▲ graphic source analysis company newzoo (the same below) reported that PC game sales grew the fastest this year, up 5.2% from 2022, while mobile games still accounted for half of the market, but sales fell 1.6% year-on-year. XingPC platform page games ushered in a cold winter, sales fell 16.9% year-on-year, but still had $1.9 billion in revenue.

In terms of games, NBA 2K24 topped the list of the top 10 bestsellers from January to October 2023, followed by Hogwarts at No. 2, Diablo 4 at No. 3, Zelda: tears of the Kingdom at No. 4 and Baird's Gate 3 at No. 7.