What are the most popular mobile games?
The highest grossing mobile game worldwide in 2022 was Honor of Kings, a multiplayer online battle arena published by Tencent Games. The most popular mobile gaming genre worldwide in 2022 in terms of consumer spend was role-playing games, also known as RPG. Meanwhile, over 12 billion U.S. dollars was spent by global consumers on strategy games in 2022. In the United States, one of the leading Android gaming apps in terms of daily active users was Clash of Clans, a free-to-play mobile strategy game which is also featured in numerous eSports tournaments.Mobile eSports tournaments
Both traditional eSports and mobile eSports host global tournaments for individual players and teams alike. These tournaments can draw in huge audiences either in person or over a streaming service, and winners can earn significant amounts of prize money. Of the most watched mobile eSports tournaments worldwide in 2022, the ninth season of MPL Indonesia, which is a professional eSports league for the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang sat top of the list. At its peak, this tournament was followed by over 2.84 million concurrent viewers across the world.Big prize pools up for grabs
The prize pool for mobile eSports tournaments can be quite large. The overall prize money pool for the Call of Duty: World Championship was under one million U.S. dollars in 2020, but this grew to two million dollars by the following year. The most recent Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship took place in Raleigh, North Carolina in December 2022 and offered an overall prize pool of 1.7 million U.S. dollars. Other mobile eSports tournaments showed similar growth in prize money. The PUBG Mobile Pro League eSports tournament reported a prize pool of five million dollars in 2020, but this nearly tripled by the following year.Who are mobile eSports consumers?
The mobile eSports market has boomed in recent years as the industry gained popularity along with traditional eSports. Mobile eSports viewers worldwide amounted to over 400 million in 2019, a number which was expected to grow over the next five years. Within this growth in overall viewership, a large portion of the increase in worldwide mobile eSports viewers regionally was expected to come from China and Europe.
