Finnish Game Industry Report 2018

Key insights

5 takeaways · ~2 min read

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The Finnish game industry has a strong history of significant international investments and acquisitions, including Softbank acquiring 51% of Supercell (2012-2014) and Tencent acquiring 80% of Supercell (2016), alongside numerous game studio acquisitions.See it on page 13
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Helsinki is a global leader in mobile game development, hosting over 80 companies, 1,600 employees (28% non-Finnish), and generating a 2018 turnover of 1.7 billion EUR, with 98.4% from exports.See it on page 53
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Finnish developers are rapidly adopting Nintendo (Switch) as a target platform, with its popularity growing from 4% in 2016 to 20% in 2018; chat games also emerged as a new focus (5% in 2018).See it on page 21
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Multiplatform development is common, with Android (75%), iOS (71%), and PC/PC online (50%) being the most popular platforms in 2018, while Windows mobile and Facebook are no longer targeted.See it on page 20
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Finnish game developers are actively exploring new market disruptions like blockchain, cross-platform games, cloud gaming, subscription models, HTML5 (including chat games), and XR technologies, demonstrating a strong ability to adapt.See it on page 31

Summary

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