In 2024, ****** remained the biggest gaming segment worldwide with approximately **** billion U.S. dollars in annual revenues. The console segment ranked second with **** billion U.S. dollars and PC gaming ranked last. Gaming revenue Revenues in the gaming industry are based on three major sources. Hardware, such as consoles, processors, screens, controllers, and other accessories; software, the actual games, as well as in-game purchases and live services. Some of the most important players in the computer and video games publishing market are Sony Computer Entertainment (Japan), Tencent Holdings Limited (China), Microsoft (United States) and Nintendo Company Ltd. (Japan). Traditional console and PC gaming companies may have worldwide name recognition but mobile gaming publishers are no slouches either: Shenzhen Tencent Tianyou Technology Ltd (formerly known as Tencent Mobile Games) generated more than ** million U.S. dollars in monthly app revenues in September, and the top-ranked mobile game publishers generate revenues worth millions in the double-digits every month. Several mobile gaming publisher have gone from being an indie company to an IPO in just a few years, with Rovio Entertainment, King, and Zynga just being a few examples of the mobile gaming boom in the mid-2010s. Mobile gaming monetization The majority of mobile gaming revenues are generated via smartphones, with tablet devices only accounting for a small share of mobile gaming gross. The average number of in-app purchases per paying user increased across all gaming genres in 2020-2021 as user engagement with gaming soared during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Another survey of mobile gaming developers found that platformers are the highest-monetizing free-to-play genre.

The revenue is forecast to experience significant growth in all segments in 2030. Comparing the nine different segments for the year 2030, the segment 'Gaming Hardware' leads the ranking with ****** billion U.S. dollars. Contrastingly, 'Gaming Networks' is ranked last, with *** billion U.S. dollars. Their difference, compared to Gaming Hardware, lies at ****** billion U.S. dollars. Find further statistics on other topics such as a comparison of the revenue in Singapore and a comparison of the average revenue per user in Sweden.The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

In May 2025, the retail gaming revenue in the United States amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars. When examining specific segment revenues, accessories were the lowest-performing segment at retail overall, while video gaming content accounted for the majority of consumer spending. Video game spending habits in the United States More than four in ten U.S. gamers across all platforms were willing to spend a maximum of ** to ** U.S. dollars on a video game. A November 2022 survey found that more than four in ten PC and console gamers stated so, while over three in ten mobile-only gamers said they only played free games. Console gamers were most comfortable spending money on their hobby at this price point. In 2023, total U.S. consumer spending on video game content amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars, a one percent increase from **** billion U.S. dollars in the preceding year. Game releases are planned around the holiday season What is very specific to the industry at large is that the highest monthly revenues occur around the holiday season in November and December of each year. The entire market revolves around maximizing sales during the season, and most new game releases of high-budget, high-profile titles (so-called AAA games) are planned shortly before the winter holidays. Many of these annual blockbuster releases see releases from late Q3 onwards: EA Sports FC usually releases in late September, and new games in Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty series are launched between late October and early November.For the holiday season 2023, blockbusters Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield had already started the season of major video game releases. Other AAA titles that are also taking advantage of the Christmas shopping release window are the Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 as well as the Nintendo Switch release of Hogwarts Legacy and the PS5 port of mobile gaming title Honkai Star Rail by Genshin Impact publisher MiHoYo.

In July 2025, total video games sales in the United States amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars, representing a five percent year-over-year increase. Generally speaking, the video game industry has its most important months in November and December, as video game software and hardware make very popular Christmas gifts. In December 2024, total U.S. video game sales surpassed **** billion U.S. dollars. Birth of the video game industry Although the largest regional market in terms of sales, as well as number of gamers, is Asia Pacific, the United States is also an important player within the global video games industry. In fact, many consider the United States as the birthplace of gaming as we know it today, fueled by the arcade game fever in the ’60s and the introduction of the first personal computers and home gaming consoles in the ‘70s. Furthermore, the children of those eras are the game developers and game players of today, the ones who have driven the movement for better software solutions, better graphics, better sound and more advanced interaction not only for video games, but also for computers and communication technologies of today. An ever-changing market However, the video game industry in the United States is not only growing, it is also changing in many ways. Due to increased internet accessibility and development of technologies, more and more players are switching from single-player console or PC video games towards multiplayer games, as well as social networking games and last, but not least, mobile games, which are gaining tremendous popularity around the world. This can be evidenced in the fact that mobile games accounted for ** percent of the revenue of the games market worldwide, ahead of both console games and downloaded or boxed PC games.

In the fiscal year 2025 (ending March 2025), video game publisher Take-Two Entertainment generated approximately 37.3 percent of its revenue with console games. This share is a significant decrease from the previous year. Mobile gained about 0.8 percentage points, accounting for the biggest share of revenue.

The graph shows the distribution of U.S. video game sales by genre. In 2018, 11.1 percent of all video games sold in the United States were sports games.

In Microsoft's fiscal year 2024, which spanned from July 2023 to June 2024, gaming revenue reached 15.47 billion U.S. dollars, down from 21.5 billion U.S. dollars in the previous fiscal period. Microsoft's gaming segment includes revenues from Xbox hardware and Xbox content and services, comprising digital transactions, Xbox Game Pass and other subscriptions, video games, third-party video game royalties, cloud services, and advertising. Microsoft is earning the fruits of its acquisition labor In recent years, Microsoft has made many strategic acquisitions to grow its gaming segment, and these efforts have paid off. Finally closing its purchase of Activision Blizzard after about 20 months of regulatory negotiations across the globe, this success was immediately reflected in the company’s quarterly gaming revenue, which jumped from 3.9 billion U.S. dollars to 7.1 billion U.S. dollars between October and December 2023. Of course, part of this growth is also the Christmas season, which is responsible for the biggest months in gaming sales. However, revenue in the following quarter settled back to 5.4 billion U.S. dollars, which is significantly higher than the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Layoffs at Microsoft despite gaming segment growth Despite Microsoft’s financial success in its gaming segment, the company has announced and performed several rounds of layoffs at many of its owned gaming companies, as well as shuttering some game studios entirely. In January 2024, mere months after closing its record-breaking Activision Blizzard deal, Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax, and Xbox employees, citing “areas of overlap” and an “alignment of strategy” and growth. These layoffs are on par with the current state of the industry – an early 2024 survey of game developers found that about a third of respondents had experienced layoffs in the last 12 months.

In 2024, China's video gaming industry reported a total revenue of *** billion yuan, representing a **** percent increase compared to the previous year. Amid stricter regulations in the home country, Chinese game developers and publishers have been eagerly finding their footing in overseas big gaming markets, such as United States, Japan, and South Korea, and trying to tap into new markets, like ***********, *****, ******, and ******.

In 2022, Yoozoo Games generated almost ** percent of its annual revenue - about *** billion yuan - from its mobile games. As one of the prominent video developers and publishers in China, the company has published over ** browser and mobile games.

In the fiscal year 2025 (ending March 2025), video game company Take-Two Entertainment generated 60.4 percent of its revenue in the United States, translating to almost 3.4 billion U.S. dollars during the measured period. The U.S. has accounted for the majority of TTE's revenue since 2015.

In 2023, mobile gaming was the strongest sector of the South Korean gaming market, with a sales revenue of around **** trillion South Korean won. According to the Korean Creative Content Agency, more than ** percent of South Koreans played mobile games that year.

In 2024, the revenue change in the 'Games' segment of the media market in the United Kingdom was modeled to amount to 10.28 percent. Between 2018 and 2024, the figure dropped by 57.1 percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory. The forecast shows the revenue change will steadily decline by 3.77 percentage points from 2024 to 2030.Further information about the methodology, more market segments, and metrics can be found on the dedicated Market Insights page on Games.

In 2020, global PC video game sales amounted to ***** billion U.S. dollars. This ** percent growth compared to the previous year is largely due to COVID-19-related stay at home orders, which contributed to an overall industry increase. In 2021, PC video game revenues are projected to surpass **** billion U.S. dollars.

In the most recently reported fiscal quarter ending March 2025 (FY 2025 Q3), Microsoft generated approximately 5.7 billion U.S. dollars through its gaming segment. The tech company's gaming segment includes Xbox hardware and Xbox content and services, comprising Xbox Live (transactions, subscriptions, cloud services, and advertising), video games, and third-party video game royalties, as well as gaming revenues from its recently closed acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, WeMade derived most of their sales revenue from their mobile and PC games, at over *** billion South Korean won in revenue. WeMade Entertainment is a South Korean video game developer that has developed several MMORPGs series such as the "Legend of Mir" series.

In the first quarter of the company's fiscal year 2025, Sony Corporation generated approximately 540 billion yen through game software sales. Add-on content such as in-game currency, in-game items and expansion packages accounted for the biggest share of gaming software sales for the quarter but did not surpass hardware sales in the measured period.

In 2024, video game publisher and software developer Epic Games is projected to generate approximately 5.8 billion U.S. dollars in gross revenues, up from 5.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2020.

How does Epic Games make money? Epic Games' gross does not only include game revenue from the company battle royale hit Fortnite, but also engine revenue derived from game licenses and royalties, as well as Unreal Engine assets. Epic is the developer of the gaming engine Unreal Engine, which is currently monetized under a royalty model, meaning that is can be downloaded for free and Epic claims a percentage of sales revenue. Currently, Epic is not claiming a fee for developers that publish their games on the Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store (EGS) was launched in December 2018. In May 2020, Epic announced that their share of royalties for games developed in Unreal Engine are waived until developers have earned their first 1 million U.S. dollars in revenue. Other income streams of the company include Epic Games Store revenue, and Merchandise and other revenue. Epic Games Store upsetting the industry standard One of the biggest headlines regarding the launch of Epic’s own digital storefront was the company’s attitude to developer / store revenue split. Gaming stores and app platforms including Valve’s Steam, the Apple App Store, or Google Play, usually take a 30 percent commission cut from game sales and in-game revenues. The Epic Games Store was released with the announcement that the EGS would only claim 12 percent of revenue, leaving 88 percent to the developers. This approach, as well as Epic’s attempt to circumvent Apple’s monetization strategies in the iOS app of Fortnite, has made many headlines, led to Apple removing the app from its App Store, and resulted in the still ongoing lawsuit Epic vs. Apple.

Take Two Interactive is a video game distribution company headquartered in the United States. The company is divided into different publishing labels depending on the type of games or target audience (Rockstar Games, 2K Games, Private Division and Social Point). Take-Two Interactive's global revenue has shown a continuous increase since 2015. In the fiscal year 2025, Take-Two generated nearly 2.1 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from console games.

In 2023, the digital console gaming market sales amounted to 32.1 billion U.S. dollars, compared to 45.8 billion U.S. dollars generated by the digital PC gaming market. Packaged gaming sales only amounted to 9.3 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2024, the revenue change in the 'Games' segment of the media market in Canada was modeled to amount to 9.29 percent. Between 2018 and 2024, the figure dropped by 72.26 percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory. The forecast shows the revenue change will steadily decline by 3.46 percentage points from 2024 to 2030.Further information about the methodology, more market segments, and metrics can be found on the dedicated Market Insights page on Games.