Games built on Unity reveal massive growth for BRIC, Samsung Android dominance, and more

Studios have used Unity technologies’ game-making tools to build more than 238,000 mobile apps. Those games are on 1.7 billion devices, and that provides Unity with a lot of data about the mobile market. And it’s sharing some of that information with the rest of us.

Of the 4.4 billion installs of Unity games on smartphones and tablets worldwide, Brazil, Russia, India, and China made up four of the top five markets for downloads. These nations, often referred to as BRIC, represented 41 percent of the total downloads. This demonstrates the importance of these regions, which have enormous populations that are all coming online through smartphones (though China, Russia, and Brazil have long been hotbeds of PC gaming). China is the only one of the BRIC countries that is a top market by revenues in the $36.9 billion mobile gaming industry, but Brazil, Russia, and India should bring in more cash as they continue to develop.