The annual revenue of mobile esports games reached $15.3 billion

Arena of Valor (Honor of Kings)
For comparison, esports PC games earned $16.1 billion in 2018.

This is reported by Niko Partners in its new report.

According to analysts, the fastest growing segment of esports will be mobile. They are also sure that esports tournaments on mobile attract both viewers and participants better. Thanks to them, the esports industry as a whole will grow, writes Gamesindustry.biz .

Niko Partners predicts a gradual transition from a small number of large tournaments to multiple small competitions. Mobile games are perfect for this.

Also:

• China remains the largest esports market for both PC and mobile. Mobile games earned $5.6 billion on it, desktop games – $6.4 billion;
• the leader among esports games is League of Legends. But this applies more to the number of viewers of esports competitions. LoL earned $1.9 billion last year. Tencent’s Honor of Kings Mobile Discipline — $2.5 billion;
• Nevertheless, there are four esports titles in the PC segment that earn more than $1 billion a year. There are only two such games in the mobile segment.

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• $5 million has been invested in the hyper-casual esports platformNielsen will evaluate the effectiveness of investments in esports for Riot Games