Monthly Game Industry Report: August 2022

Key insights

7 takeaways

01
Honor of Kings was the highest-earning mobile game in June 2022 per Sensor Tower, with about $238 million in player spending.See it on page 8
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Spending on non-game apps exceeded game spending on the US App Store for the first time, reaching 50.3% of spending by June 2022.See it on page 13
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In June 2022, mobile game player spending was about $6.4 billion across Apple and Google stores, a roughly 10% decrease year-over-year, per Sensor Tower.See it on page 8
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Pokemon Go generated over $110 million in June 2022, which the report describes as the best month of the year so far for Niantic.See it on page 9
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Diablo Immortal's mobile version surpassed $100 million in player spending in just eight weeks across the world.See it on page 18
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Meta's Reality Labs posted a $2.8 billion loss in Q2 2022, which the report attributes to Zuckerberg's investment strategy in the metaverse.See it on page 25
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Capcom's net sales fell nearly 48% year-over-year to 184 million in Q1 2022, which Capcom attributes to not releasing any new major games in the period.See it on page 29

Summary

This is the August 2022 Monthly Game Industry Report, a compilation of mobile and wider games-industry findings drawn from third-party sources including Sensor Tower, Sociolpeta, Newzoo, Edgegap, Twitter, and company financial reports, covering mostly June 2022 and first-half 2022 data. It covers mobile game revenue and downloads, app versus game spending in the US App Store, blockchain and play-to-earn games, latency for mobile gamers, Twitter game conversation, quarterly results from Meta, Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft, Capcom and Intel, and mobile advertising trends.

According to Sensor Tower, the mobile games market saw about $6.4 billion in player spending across Apple and Google stores in June 2022, a decline of about 10% year-over-year. Honor of Kings earned about $238 million in player spending that month, and Pokemon Go generated over $110 million, its best month of 2022 so far according to the report.

Sensor Tower data also shows that US App Store spending on non-game apps exceeded game spending for the first time, with non-games reaching 50.3% of spending in June 2022. Diablo Immortal's mobile version surpassed $100 million in player spending in eight weeks.

In financial reporting, Meta's Reality Labs posted a $2.8 billion loss in Q2 2022, while Sony shipped 2.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles in the quarter. Capcom's Q1 2022 net sales fell nearly 48% year-over-year to 184 million.