Newzoo: Shooters Are the Fifth Top-Grossing Genre in 2022
A new report from Newzoo reveals that shooter titles are the fifth-highest revenue-generating genre in the gaming market in 2022, with the majority of its revenues coming from consoles.
The analytics firm Newzoo has published a new report on shooter games where it provided key insights into the genre's revenues, its player base, playing habits, and more.
According to the report, shooters are the fifth highest revenue-generating genre in the gaming industry across all platforms in 2022. The major part of the genre's revenues comes from console games (40%), followed by PC games (34%) and mobile games (26%). In terms of the number of monthly active users, however, PC shooters take a leading position, while shooters released for consoles only sit in fourth place.
The report also reads that an average shooter player plays 1.7 games per month spending 10 hours on average per month, or 1.6 sessions a day.
As for the player base, the analysts claim that the vast majority of shooter fans are male players (68%), while female players account for 32%. The largest age group of shooter players is people from 10 to 20 years old (31%). The age group from 21 to 30 years old is not far behind – it accounts for 29% of all shooter fans. People aged from 31 to 40 represent 23% of all shooter player base, and players aged from 41 to 61 account for 17%.
The top shooter game markets by MAU in August 2022 are the USA, the UK, Germany, Brazil, and Russia. Meanwhile, in terms of player share, this list is a little different – Mexico has the largest percentage of the total player base that played a shooter title in August (47%), it is followed by the US (43%), Brazil and Italy (38%), and the UK (37%).
The most successful shooters in terms of MAU in August 2022 on PC were Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valorant, and Destiny 2. The top console shooters by MAU were Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and Destiny 2.
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