Official The Year In Numbers 2024 Presented By GamesIndustry.biz

[Sphinx]

In the infographic below, you will find:

• The global games market value (courtesy of Newzoo)
• Total boxed vs digital revenues (also via Newzoo)
• The biggest mobile games, publishers and countries, both by revenue and downloads (thank you, Sensor Tower)
• The best-selling games in the UK (from Nielsen GfK), US (from Circana) and Japan (from Famitsu)
• The most covered games and companies, in terms of number of articles (provided by ICO via Footprints, based on data from over 18,000 websites)
• The biggest influencers on YouTube, most watched trailers and game promo videos, and the most popular video games on TikTok (courtesy of Fancensus)

Some snippets:



full Infograph and source: GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year In Numbers 2024

 

[PiratekingzzDomain888]

For the mobile graph, as always with SensorTower, it's missing China's Android data since they have their own Playstore that SensorTower can't track. And Android has 77% market share there. So be wary when drawing conclusions from this data.

 

[Forthcoming]

I wonder where the 1% of boxed games revenue for PC specifically is still coming from. Which PC games still have a physical boxed version being sold in stores?

 

[Dreamy Bull]

To me, it feels a bit off that you'd include "top 10 influencers" but not with a word talk about the layoffs, which were quite a significant part of 2024 in games...