Android games will make more money than iOS games by 2018 thanks to China

The Android platform will soar past iOS in terms of revenue in a few years, but that doesn’t necessarily mean more money for Google.

Google Play has regularly had more downloads per app than the iOS App Store for a while now, but that’s meant little since iPhone and iPad owners have spent so much more money than people with Android devices. But that’s going to change in a few years, according to a report from advisory firm Digi-Capital. Android apps will make more total revenue than the competition by 2018 as long as you include China, where the official Google Play store has virtually no presence. That’s a lot of money for people making games for Android considering Digi-Capital is predicting people will spend $45 billion on mobile games by 2018.