They have a big enough world-wide audience, and no doubt enough money in the bank, to make it a pretty viable alternative. It is no wonder that Epic Games felt they could step up and challenge Steam. That number is across all platforms, but is huge all the same. The first thing to note, and the report goes into detail on this, is how much Fortnite dominated. The footnotes indicate that this chart was made with preliminary data for December and that Honour of Kings is known as Arena of Valor in the west. SuperData 2018 Year in Review – Free to Play digital revenue
Still, numbers are number and lists are lists and I have long expressed a love of both, so here they are. That isn’t necessarily bad, but it does leave out any sort of “apples to apples” comparison with 2017. The problem is that SuperData chose a different way to slice and dice the game market, dividing the market into free to play and premium across all platforms. So I was keen to see the report for 2018 to see if there was a repeat performance on that front. Logic seemed to dictate that games that made their year in review charts, yet were consistently below WoW in revenue… and I speak specifically of World of Tanks… seemed to at least bring into question either the validity of the annual summary or the monthly charts… though there is no reason that both cannot be suspect. Last year’s report was interesting for a few reasons, but what topped my list was the fact that World of Warcraft was missing from the report entirely. So there is that, though I am not sure that has meant any changes in the short term. One of the things they want you to know right away in the report is that they were acquired by Nielsen back in September. The effort isn’t huge if you want to see some data. pdf format and, while it is free, you do have to go through all the motions of “buying” it, save for providing a credit card. You can’t just look at it on their web site. SuperData Research put out their 2018 Year in Review report last week.
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