Gaming industry has undergone an incredible evolution so far. At first, playing tennis with graphics where only pixels counted, now playing games is like living another life. In recent years, it is possible to say that not only young people, but also people of all ages have been playing games. Since the accessibility of games has peaked in recent years, the game industry has increased its value by the fact that everyone is playing games.
Hundreds of millions of people play games, and most games released today have in-game purchases. Thanks to these purchases, even if you pay the price of the game, you may want to make an additional expense. You are not alone in this. A published report reveals which platform players spend the most money on.
Gamers spend most on mobile games
Newzoo’s research showed who is the highest earner in the gaming industry. When we examine the report, we can see the value of in-game purchases made on mobile, PC and console platforms. When we examine this report, we can see that mobile games alone have been the home of more purchases than console and PC combined. When we look at it in terms of percentage, we see that mobile games alone account for 52 percent of the earnings.
While the expenditures on mobile games were 93.2 billion dollars in 2021, this amount is 36.7 billion dollars in PC and 50.4 billion dollars in consoles. We see that the lowest of these amounts is PC. There’s a big reason PC revenue lags behind consoles. While playing a game on PC, you can use community content such as mods or patches. Thus, you do not need to buy an item from the developer of the game. However, since consoles are closed boxes, you can only buy mods from the developer of the game.
Although most of the mobile games are free games, the numbers are clear. It seems that instead of paying for a game, players choose to pay for in-game items when necessary. This strategy has been quite successful when compared to other platforms. The fact that PUBG is free to play on PC recently shows that PC games also want to use this strategy.
On which platform do you spend more money on the games you play? Let’s meet in the comments.
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