A new report from research firm Screen Digest forecasts that the social games market will be worth $1.5 billion in 2014.
The market surged from $76 million in 2008 to $639 million in 2009, as average monthly active users of social games grew from 60 million to over 500 million.
The report states that the USA is the largest market for social games, “way ahead of second placed UK”. China, Russia and Germany are all expected to grow significantly during the next five years.
“Facebook dominates distribution of social games, but other social networks, especially in Asia Pacific, are increasing their catalogues of games and will also drive growth of this sector,” Screen Digest says. “Zynga is the dominant operator in the sector and is the only company generating revenues over $100 million (£66m).
“Growth will moderate significantly from 2010 onwards now the market is established – the market is forecast to be worth $1.5bn in 2014.”
[Source: Edge]
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