A Primer on Mobile Gaming

Have you played a mobile game?

Whether you do or not, mobile gaming is very much a thing. Earthweb reports these 2022 mobile gaming stats:

Key Mobile Gaming Statistics 2022

21% of Android and 25% of iOS apps downloaded are games.
Games account for 43% of all smartphone users.
62% of people install a game on their phone within a week of owning it.
78% of gamers are Android users.
The number of active mobile gamers worldwide is over 2.2 billion.
57.9% of the games played are puzzle games.
More women spend money on in-game content than men.
The mobile games’ revenue was expected to hit $76.7 billion by the end of 2020.
Asia is the biggest gaming marketplace in the world.
PUBG mobile is the top mobile game worldwide in terms of revenue.
About 53% of internet users between the age of 45-54 years play mobile games.
Only 37% of mobile gamers are men.
Only 8% of mobile gamers are teenagers.

But perhaps you will be more interested in the demographics -- people "just like you" are playing games. A lot. Again from Earthweb's article on mobile gaming statistics:

50% of players between the ages of 18 to 54 consider themselves committed gamers.
36% of the surveyed people, between 65 to 74, reportedly play once to several times a day.
Even though a large chunk of people, 62% of the surveyed people between 18 to 24, reported to be committed gamers, other age groups are also fairly involved.
Mobile gaming statistics show that above 50% of the people, up to the age of 55 years, reported themselves as committed gamers.
Mobile gaming statistics have revealed that the percentage of committed female to male gamer ratio of 49% to 51% is almost balanced.

Where am I going with all of this?

Before I get into some deeper thoughts on the state of mobile gaming, I just wanted to put things into some context.

And maybe you are a gamer. And that's fine. But have you stopped to think about HOW you are gaming?

I'll get into that on my next post soon.

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