10 Simple Facts Most Gamers Don't Know

10. The Mobile Gaming Market Is Bigger Than Console & PC Combined

If you're not much of a mobile gamer, it's incredibly easy to underestimate just how insanely popular - and more to the point, lucrative - the mobile gaming space has become over the last few years in particular.

A recent study by market researcher SuperData revealed that free-to-play mobile games generated $73.8 billion in revenue in 2020 alone, which eclipses the combined $52.8 billion total of PC and console gaming.

As such it shouldn't be terribly surprising that PC and console game publishers are so insistently inserting microtransactions into their titles wherever possible.

But beyond the mere annoying presence of in-app purchases, it also speaks to how successfully mobile game publishers have been able to predatorily prey on players and part them with their cash.

That's not to throw shade at all F2P mobile games, but it is a corner of the market that's so easily ignored by so many - especially in the West, where it isn't nearly as popular as in, say, China - and one which clearly merits greater regulation.