Newzoo and Pangle reported that the genre accounted for 21.3% of total global mobile market revenue that year.
Newzoo – a source of games analytics and market research – and the mobile app advertising platform Pangle reported that mobile RPGs generated $18.5 billion in consumer spending in 2020. The companies said that RPGs also accounted for 21.3% of global mobile market revenue that year.
The genre's popularity is not even around the world as the report found East Asian countries made up 72% of global mobile RPG consumer spending. The top three mobile revenue markets were China, Japan, and South Korea. Chinese player revenue was $7.8 billion, Japanese users generated $3.46 billion, and South Korean – $2.04 billion.
In addition, the report stated that most mobile RPG players across the US, UK, Japan, and South Korea were male, with a median age of 30.
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