Global Video Game Market: Revenue, Players and Platforms (Mobile, Console, PC)

This report covers consumer spending on video games worldwide across mobile, console and PC. It also covers player numbers and console hardware installed bases. Market totals come from Newzoo, a games data firm whose free summaries are publicly available. Hardware figures come from the platform holders.

Newzoo data shows the global games market reached $201.6 billion in 2025 [2]. In mid-2025 Newzoo had forecast $188.8 billion in 2025 revenue and 3.6 billion players [1]. The final figure came in higher, driven by record PC growth according to Newzoo [2].

Newzoo forecasts the global games market at $213.9 billion in 2026, up 6.1% year on year, as reported by GamesIndustry.biz [4]. This is an estimate, not an actual result.

Newzoo expects the November launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 to lift full-game spending by 17.5% in 2026 [4]. It expects microtransactions to regain their position as the largest business model [4].

Newzoo expects player growth to slow from 4.4% in 2026 to a 3.2% CAGR through 2029, when the global player base is projected to reach 4.07 billion [4].

Mobile is the largest platform. Newzoo forecasts mobile revenue at $121.1 billion in 2026, 57% of the market and up 6.8% year on year [4]. Its 2025 mobile forecast was $103.0 billion, up 2.9% [3].

Console is forecast at $46.9 billion in 2026, 22% of the market and up 5.1% [4]. Newzoo described console as the fastest-growing platform in its 2025 report [1]. The remaining 2026 revenue, about $45.9 billion, is PC (freereports.online calculation).

By players, Newzoo estimates 3.10 billion mobile players in 2026 (84% of all players), 977 million PC players (26%) and 651 million console players (18%) [4]. Shares add up to more than 100% because many people play on more than one platform.

Newzoo expects PC growth in 2026 to be geographically broad, led by Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East and Africa [4]. Its 2025 report noted PC gains in Asia and slowing mobile growth in mature markets [1].

Newzoo expects player penetration to rise from 61.5% to 62% of the online population in 2026, with the online population growing 3.5% to 5.97 billion [4].

• Nintendo: life-to-date sales of 156.59 million Switch and 23.68 million Switch 2 consoles as of June 30, 2026 [5]. Switch 2 software sales reached 58.17 million units over the same period [5].
• Nintendo sold 19.86 million Switch 2 consoles in the fiscal year to March 31, 2026, beating its 19 million forecast [7].
• Sony: cumulative PlayStation 5 sell-in of 93.7 million units as of March 31, 2026, based on Sony disclosures [6]. Sony has scheduled the end of physical disc production for 2028 [6].
• Microsoft: gaming revenue of $21.79 billion in fiscal year 2026 (to June 30, 2026), down 7%, as reported from Microsoft results [7]. Microsoft does not disclose Xbox console unit sales [6].
• Take-Two Interactive: console platforms (PlayStation and Xbox) made up 40.5% of its net revenue by platform in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024 [8].

Market revenue and player figures are Newzoo estimates and forecasts in nominal US dollars. They measure consumer spending on games across mobile, console and PC. Newzoo's 2025 figure of $188.8 billion [1] was a forecast; the later $201.6 billion figure [2] is Newzoo's updated 2025 estimate. 2026 and 2029 values are forecasts [4].

The 2026 PC revenue figure of about $45.9 billion is a freereports.online calculation: $213.9 billion total minus $121.1 billion mobile minus $46.9 billion console [4].

Console units are sell-in (shipped to retailers), life-to-date, as reported by the platform holder. The Sony PS5 figure and Microsoft gaming revenue are taken from secondary sites that report company disclosures [6][7].