PCs were the hottest trend in the market before the launching of the gaming consoles like PS4 and Xbox One and in 2016, the use of the PCs for the gaming purposes is still continued and it is not finished.
The super-data research report shows that the gaming industry has the value of $91 billion this year around the world. The games like Pokemon Go are appeared in the market and they helped the net worth of market to rise high.
The report also shows that PC gaming market has earned the massive revenue of $36 billion during the year and it is driven by the titles of free to play online and these games can be downloaded from online. It is competing with $6.6 billion of console, which is earned during the year for the premium gaming and PC is managing the impressive $5.4 billion. The overwatch gave the tremendous impression with the earning of $586 million. There are different companies like Minecraft, CS:GO, Guild Wars 2, and Fallout 4 to follow in the earnings over Overwatch.
The report also shows the real earning came through the free to play games and the list of the top games with their earning will become the top games like:
- League of Legends – $1.7 billion
- Dungeon Fighter Challenge – $1.1 billion
- Crossfire – $1.1 billion
- World of Tanks – $0.40 billion
- Dota 2 – $0.26 billion
The report also added with that after releasing over seven years before, the league of legend is on the top of the Riot, which earned over $150 million per month and Dota 2 is at the second position with their earning of $23.4 million per month this year and shows the hesitation to switch to MOBA. It will get the modest success of the mid tier titles like Smite, Heroes of the Storm, Paragon and Heroes of Newerth and has the persistent trend over past many years.
Superdata shows that the PC valuation is made on the basis of social, subscription and free to play and the premium games. The users may have some estimation like the valve and Riot, which do not make public the earning records.
Follow
