Gaming Industry Size & Stats
Posted on Jul 13, 2011 by Michael Gugel in Gaming
EA officially announced that they acquired Popcap today. EA and Popcap combined have 10M DAU on Facebook according to AppData. They’re still second to Zynga (who has 53.6M DAU), but now they’re far ahead of the wooga, the third place contender with 4.5M DAU.
The SEC report that EA filed today had some really interesting tidbits about the gaming industry.
As you can see in the chart below, core packaged games (like the ones you find at Walmart) make up a ~$23B market. But that market segment is shrinking. Casual/Social/Mobile games are already a ~$12B market and growing at ~50% a year!
The size and growth rate of games.
By 2014, Think Equity estimates that the gaming market will grow from $42B to $54B. Casual/Social/Mobile games are going to be driving that growth:
Going, going, GONE!
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Patrick
25. Jul, 2011
Hey Michael, where did the numbers for your chart come from? I thought that the overall gaming market size was currently in the 63B range.
Michael Gugel
27. Jul, 2011
@Patrick
My numbers came from EA’s SEC filing:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000119312511186744/dex992.htm