Newzoo's latest global mobile game revenue forecast.
Newzoo's latest global mobile game revenue forecast.
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Newzoo: Mobile games will grow 4.4% in 2021 to $90.7B

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mobile games will grow 4.4% in 2021 to $90.7 billion, according to the latest report from market researcher Newzoo and its research partner Apptopia.

That’s slower growth than the overall forecast period — Newzoo estimates the game industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11% from 2019 to 2024 — in part because last year’s extraordinary revenue growth during the pandemic is very hard to beat this year. Overall, Newzoo expects gaming to hit $175.8 billion in 2021 and $200 billion in revenue in 2024.

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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.