Data.ai: Mobile gaming starts to wane after pandemic spike

Data.ai (the analytics group formerly known as App Annie) released a new report this week about mobile gaming’s successes in 2022. According to the report, mobile gaming is starting to decline slightly following its pandemic-era boom but seems to be steadying at a high watermark. It also highlighted some games that have defied the downward trend.

In the report, Data.ai specifies that, while the mobile market is declining, it’s still doing better numbers in 2022 than it did pre-pandemic. For example, worldwide consumer spend on games in February 2020 was $5.24 billion. The same number in September 2022 was $6.5 billion. While the latter number is a big dip from the high of $7.73 billion in July 2021, it is still greater than pre-pandemic spending.