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Newzoo: Global game market to grow from $108.9 billion in 2017 to $128.5 billion in 2020

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Global game revenues are expected to grow from $108.9 billion in 2017 to $128.5 billion in 2020, according to market researcher Newzoo.

During that time, mobile games are expected to grow from 32 to percent of the overall game market to 40 percent. Console games will shrink from 31 percent to 28 percent, while PC games will shrink from 23 percent to 19 percent. Tablet games will hold steady at 10 percent.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.