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Unity Q1 report: 220,000 games, 4.2B installs on 1.7B devices

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Unity Technologies, maker of the popular Unity game engine used by millions of developers, issued a report today on the state of mobile gaming in the first quarter. It reported that 220,000 Unity games generated 4.2 billion installs across 1.7 billion unique mobile devices.

Those are some pretty astounding numbers that demonstrate the breadth of the mobile game industry, which generated an estimated $34 billion in revenue in 2015, according to market researcher Newzoo. The number of mobile game downloads grew 30 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the first quarter of 2016.

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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.