The Russian gaming market is ranked 12th in the world in terms of box office indicators. Its iPad segment is larger in volume than the similar one in Germany, – the Newzoo company claims in the latest report.
According to box office indicators, the iPad App Store is on the 7th place in the world, the iPhone App Store is on the 11th, and Google Play is on the 10th position.
However, this was not the main discovery of the Newzoo study. Russia, it turns out, is the undisputed leader in the number of PC players. 98% of Russian users play on personal computers. In total, Newzoo counted 46.4 million players with us. Of these, 56% either spend money on games or in the games themselves.
Social games are the most popular in Russia. They are played by 41.7 million users. Hardcore PC/MAC games are played by 33.9 million people. The Russian audience of mobile games (smartphones + tablets) is 32.4 million users.
More than a third of users of MMO games (27.4 million people play them in total) have children. In other words, they are solvent.
About all this in a more visual form just below:
A source: http://www.newzoo.com