# Gaming: mobile game market sees the major decline of 9.6% in Q1 2022

URL: https://technosports.co.in/mobile-game-market/  
Published: 2022-08-08  
Updated: 2022-08-08  
Author: Nivedita Bangari

According to a new survey, the majority of mobile game genres had a reduction in sending and downloads in the first half of 2022, with the overall mobile gaming market declining 9.6% year over year.

In the first half of 2022, the mobile gaming market shrank to $11.4 billion, according to new Sensor Tower Game Intelligence statistics. The only categories that saw a rise in income were arcade and tabletop games.

![mobile game](https://technosports.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Samsung-Galaxy-A50-playing-PUBG-1024x576.jpg)
*credit: Android Auhority*

The revenue from arcade games climbed 14.8% over the previous year to almost $176 million. According to AppleInsider, other genres, such as hypercasual and RPG, experienced a dip.

Racing games experienced the biggest reduction in income, down 28.8% year over year, and geolocation augmented reality games suffered a drop of 26% during the same period.

## **In addition to the decline in revenue, the number of mobile game downloads decreased by 2.5% annually to 2.4 billion.**

Even while downloads were essentially constant at 1.2 billion, revenue for just the second quarter of 2022 fell by 11.4% to $5.6 billion.

![mobile game](https://technosports.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/best-mobile-games-900x506-1.jpg)
*credit: economic times*

According to the report, some factors, such as inflation, the end of Covid-19 lockdowns, and privacy improvements like the deprecation of the IDFA tag, are to blame for the general decline in the mobile gaming sector.

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[source](https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/mobile-gaming-market-falls-nearly-10-in-first-half-of-2022/93388451)