As it turned out, the largest growth happened in the mobile segment. He jumped 54 % and first reached second place in terms of market volume in Russia, overtaking social entertainment. Back in 2015, social and mobile games went to nose-24 % and 20 %, respectively. But in 2016, social had already been 18 %, while mobile-29 %. Mail.Ru notes that in monetary terms, the Russian mobile game market over the past five years has increased 10 times and reached 16.3 billion rubles.
The head of the Playjangocasino.uk game direction Mail.Ru Group Vasily Maguryan says the growth is associated with the increasing capacities of mobile devices. And the stronger the iron, the more cool experiments can be carried out.
But “mobile phones” and “socialists” are only the second and third places in online games. At the first, as usual, mmo reigned. In 2016, their share amounted to 53 %, and the market volume was 30.3 billion rubles. According to data Mail.Ru, This is 5 % more than in 2015.
In passing Mail.Ru I wanted to brag about my achievements. In 2016, the company’s revenue from MMO grew by 21.2 % and amounted to 11.39 billion rubles. In 2017 Mail.Ru going to expand his portfolio of games for PC, consoles and mobile devices. The investment unit will partly help in this Mail.Ru Games Ventures, which will be crushed by promising developers around the world $ 100 million.
