Newzoo: High fidelity games are taking over the mobile market

Mobile games are now the biggest segment in the global games market, but high-fidelity games in particular are coming out on top. A new report from industry analyst Newzoo in a partnership with the chip manufacturer ARM, finds that hi-fi games have shown strong year-over-year growth, and have experienced 40.7 percent growth from 2015 to 2016 in China, North America, and Europe combined.

The report defines hi-fi games as those featuring advanced graphics. The market for these kinds of games is already well developed in China, where hi-fi games make up 42.3 percent of the revenue from top grossing mobile games in 2016. In the 200 top grossing mobile titles in China, 110 of them were hi-fi.