Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, August 24, Sensor Tower released a report this morning that with the COVID-19 epidemic promoting the contactless lifestyle of users around the world, the concept of virtual world and meta-universe has once again become a hot spot for the growth of the mobile market.

According to the report, the number of downloads of global metacosmos applications successfully exceeded 200 million in 2020, with a growth rate of 43.5 percent, while by 2021, the figure will grow by 71.7 percent year-on-year and reach 350 million. During the first half of 2022, global metacosmos applications have received 170 million downloads, of which 110 million game applications have been downloaded, accounting for 67.3%.

CTOnews.com learned that Sensor Tower said that total revenue from global metacosmos applications surged in 2020 and eventually exceeded $1.26 billion, an increase of more than 112% over 2019. This growth trend continued into 2021 and reached an all-time high of $1.51 billion. During the first half of 2022, Metaspace applications had revenue of $650 million, of which game applications accounted for 94 per cent of revenue.

Among them, "Roblox" has become the most popular meta-universe game in the world. During the first half of 2022, "Roblox" swept the download list and best-seller list of meta-universe concept games in the United States, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Its worldwide user spending accounts for 70% of the total spending of meta-universe game users.

▲ figure from Sensor Tower, the same below

In addition, "Play Together", a simulated sandboxie game released by South Korean publisher HAEGIN, has performed well in the Asian market, ranking second only to "Roblox" in downloads.

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