Niko Partners

China video games market revenue hits $45.5bn during 2021

Internationally Chinese game companies made $17.3 bn, up 27% year-over-year

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt markets worth $1.76bn in 2021

65.32 million people across the three countries played games last year, 85.76 million expected by 2025

Mobile revenues grew $135m in Malaysia and Singapore in two years

Niko Partners reports shows rapid growth in gaming on smartphones, surpassing PC

Chinese console market to grow to $2.15bn by 2024

Niko Partners predicts grey market console sales will decline as number of legal devices nears one billion

Gaming viewership, playtime surged in China under lockdown

Niko Partners: But ad revenue dropped, and players gravitated toward familiar, not new, titles

Niko: PC and mobile revenue to pass $8 billion in Greater Southeast Asia by 2023

95% of PC players and 90% of mobile gamers in the region engage esports

China gaming regulator publishes new rules for minors targeting playtime, spending

Age-rating system still in the works as restrictions are tightened, expanded to mobile games

Niko Partners: Cloud gaming revenue to reach $3bn in Asia by 2023

Projections suggest there will be 500 million cloud gamers in Asia by 2028

Niko Partners: Mobile esport games grossed $15.3bn worldwide last year

Mobile esport titles poised to overtake PC competitors which grossed $16.1 billion in 2018

Niko Partners: Legal console sales in China to overtake grey market with Switch, next-gen launches

Chinese console hardware and software market expected to bring in $1.5 billion in 2023

Niko Partners: Game for Peace expected to bring in nearly $1b by year's end

PUBG Mobile clone anticipated to be one of Tencent's biggest games; meanwhile, PUBG Mobile has brought in $400m overseas

Niko Partners: Chinese mobile gaming revenue up 29% last year despite license freeze

Though PC revenues declined slightly, mobile rose to $15.6 billion last year, led by giants Tencent and NetEase

Niko Partners: China online PC gaming revenue saw slight decline in 2018

Domestic revenue dropped by approximately $300m from 2017 in the face of game license freeze

China introduces new game approval process, limiting total approvals per year

HTML5 games now require approval, anti-addiction system policy expanded to mobile titles

60% of Greater Southeast Asia gamers are "strongly drawn to esports"

New Niko Partners report finds 42% of players from the region prefer competitive arena titles, spend the most on games

Steam's Chinese audience grows to more than 30 million users

Dota 2 credited with driving Valve's marketplace in the region as firm prepares for China-only version

Chinese console and TV-based game market projected to reach $736m in 2018

Grey market software to account for nearly two-thirds of market value

Chinese games market expected to reach $42bn revenue by 2022

Increase in number of female users puts China on path to 720 million gamers

Chinese games market to hit $35bn by 2021 - Niko Partners

Mobile revenue to account for 58% of the market

Niko Partners: Chinese mobile market has hit peak growth

Analysts still predict domestic mobile revenues will top $11bn in 2019