In Q3 2014, China online gaming market kept stable growth; mobile gaming market’s total transaction value had an increase of 8.2% quarter on quarter. China online gaming companies are positively developing browser games, mobile games in oversea market and having achieved good results.
Total transaction value of China online gaming market exceeded RMB27.76 billion ($4.51 billion) in Q3 2014 with increase of 20.3% year on year and 4.1% quarter on quarter.
Games on desktop were still the key component in China online gaming market, which represented 56.1% market share in Q3 2014. Mobile gaming market is stepping into a stable stage as its growth rate slowed in Q3 2014. Besides, there was a slowdown in number of new games launching among mobile gaming companies in Q3.
In Q3, Perfect World gaming company ranked 3, replacing Shanda Games & Changyou Games (ranked 3 in Q2). China top 5 online gaming companies by total revenue remained Tencent, Netease, Perfect World, Shanda Games and Changyou Games in Q3.
Tencent is the only one whose business structure is similar to online gaming industry structure, covering desktop gaming, browser gaming and mobile gaming market. Its Wechat platform featured with social elements can also attract more mobile game users.
According to the 2014 Second Quarter Mobile Game Market Analysis Report published by Analysys International, CMGE again ranks first among China’s mobile game publishers with 19.3% of market share in China (in terms of gross billings).
In Q3, mobile gaming transaction value was RMB6.98 billion ($1.13 billion) with an increase of 72.8% from the same period of last year. China mobile online gaming users exceeded 321.8 million in Q2 2014 with an increase of 6.4% from prior quarter according to data of GPC IDC and CNG. Influenced by the slowdown of growth rate in smart mobile device shipment and gaming users, China mobile gaming market’s driving force transferred from the size of user base increase to ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) increase in Q3 2014.
As of September 2014, the number of China mobile games and gaming companies exceeded 4,342 and 2,182. Android games and gaming companies both surpassed the ones in Appstore and iOS market. In Q3 2014, China mobile games and gaming companies both had rapid growth quarterly.
Driven by China’s summer holiday (from July to September), gaming companies increased ads placement which stimulated rapid growth of gaming advertisers and gaming products.
In China browser gaming market, the numbers of platforms, games and developers increased steadily in Q3 2014.
From Q2 2014, the number of browser game advertisers and browser games had sharp decrease.
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