The effects of Covid-19, which broke out in late 2019, began to fade away gradually. In this context, while there were minor recoveries in all areas, the game industry also caught its pre-pandemic levels. Finally, market research firm Newzoo announced the highest-paid publicly traded companies in the gaming industry.
Tencent Games became the company that made the most money in the game industry
According to Newzoo’s report, Tencent Games was the game company that made the most money in 2021. The company, which has a large share in the mobile game industry’s arrival to these days, earned a revenue of 32.2 billion dollars last year with productions such as PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty. That number was $29.3 billion in 2020.
After Tencent, the company with the highest revenue in the industry was Sony, known for its PlayStation brand. After the company, which put $ 18.3 billion in its case in 2021, Apple comes in third place with $ 15.3 billion. In fourth place is Microsoft, which bought Activision Blizzard for $68 billion earlier this year. The company’s game revenues in 2021 are at the level of 12.9 billion dollars.
Newzoo’s fifth highest revenue generator in gaming is Google. NetEase followed with $9.6 billion, earning $11 billion last year. Blizzard, which came under the umbrella of Microsoft, put $ 8.1 billion in its vault. Finally, let’s mention that Nintendo earned 8.1 billion dollars and EA 6.5 billion dollars in 2021.
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