“Mobile Game Market Booms with $1.55 Billion Sales in Q1 2023: Data.ai Report”

With the sales of the domestic mobile game market totaling $1.55 billion in the first quarter of this year (about 2 trillion won), the mobile game market is enjoying an unprecedented boom.

According to the “Mobile game settlement in the first quarter of 2023” report released by the data analysis platform data.ai on the 9th, the number of domestic mobile game downloads was 140 million and consumer spending was $1.55 billion in the first quarter. . This is an increase of 15% from the previous year and 18% from the previous quarter, the highest expenditure ever.

In the case of domestic game app downloads, it decreased by about 3% compared to the same period last year. However, it turned to growth compared to the fourth quarter of last year and increased by 9%, recording about 140 million downloads in the first quarter.

‘Lineage M’, ‘Odin: Valhalla Rising’, and ‘Lineage W’ were ranked in the order of domestic consumer spending in the first quarter. The download ranking was in order of ‘Random Dice: GO’, ‘Heaven Burns Red’, and ‘Dangdang Commando’. The monthly actual user rankings are ‘Roblox’, ‘Dangdang Commando’, and ‘Pokemon Go’.

Meanwhile, the global mobile app market also showed growth. It broke a new record by achieving $33.9 billion (45 trillion won) in consumer spending for both non-game apps and game apps. Game apps accounted for about 60% of all mobile apps with about 21 billion dollars (28 trillion won).

Correspondent Yoo Chae-yeong, Hankyung.com [email protected]