The Chinese Tencent earned the most at the games in the first quarter of 2014, according to Newzoo. She also claims that the revenue of one Candy Crush Saga for three months turned out to be more than the total revenue of Nintendo from all its games.
Newzoo has published the Top 25 richest gaming public companies, based on the amount of revenue they received from the sale of gaming products (revenues received from the sale of hardware and non-gaming components of the business were not taken into account) in the first quarter of 2014.
Numbers15 companies from the top are Asian (10 – Japanese, 2 – Korean, 3 – Chinese).
Japanese companies account for 31% of revenue from the Top 25, while Chinese companies account for 17%. For comparison, the American – 40%.
All companies from the top, except Nintendo, are somehow present on the mobile market (Changyou, for example, invested $ 600 million in mobile games in March). Only seven companies experienced a drop in sales compared to the first quarter of last year.
Details Quarterly revenues of King, which appeared in the top for the first time, amounted to $641 million.
Two-thirds of them are accounted for by Candy Crush Saga. This is more than Nintendo earned from all game sales over the same period. But here it is necessary to keep in mind the following: sales of console games strongly depend on the season, therefore, most likely, in the fourth quarter, Nintendo’s revenue will be higher than that of King.
Once the main players in the Japanese market, GREE and DeNA will experience difficult times. A drop of 18% and 27%, respectively. But the revenue of their competitors, on the contrary, has grown significantly. GungHo’s revenues increased by 61%, and COLOPL’s by 716%.
The most successful company in the entire gaming market was the Chinese Tencent. She earned a fantastic $1.7 billion, beating such giants as Microsoft and Electronic Arts.
Source: http://www.newzoo.com