Julia Stoll
Research expert covering TV and video media
Mobile gaming market in the Asia-Pacific region - statistics & facts
When the augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go, a collaborative effort between Japanese companies The Pokémon Company and Nintendo as well as San Francisco-based software developer Niantic, took the world by storm in 2016, the global mobile gaming market was valued at approximately 48.5 billion U.S. dollars – almost 100 billion dollars short of its estimated valuation for 2022. In this ever-growing industry, the Asia-Pacific region plays a key role on both the developer and the consumer side, as it is the region with the biggest mobile player base worldwide, boasting over 1.3 billion gamers across Asia and Oceania. Moreover, for the past few years, China, Japan, and South Korea have consistently ranked within the global top five countries for mobile gaming revenue.
