Report: 83% of mobile games fail in the three years after launch

[John Elden Ring]

Report: 83% of mobile games fail in the three years after launch

New research from mobile revenue growth engine SuperScale has found that 83% of launched mobile games fail within three…

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New research from mobile revenue growth engine SuperScale has found that 83% of launched mobile games fail within three years, while 43% are cancelled during development.

Advertisement Conducted by Atomik Research, SuperScale's Good Games Don't Die report was published this week, and is based on interviews with 500 game developers in the UK and US. According to the report, 76% of launched games reached peak revenue within the first year, but only 4% reached this peak during the second year.

The report also found that while over half of developers use live ops in their games, 38% don't release regular content or updates, with less than half releasing monthly updates to their games, leading to just 5% of games receiving support seven years post-launch. Despite the failure rate of new titles, 78% of developers prefer working on them.

However, over a third of respondents said that uncertainty in the industry "is stopping them from developing new games," with 30% feeling as though the current market "is too difficult to succeed in."

 

[Snes nes]

 

[JAHGamer]

good, gaas and mobile are a crapshoot, traditional AAA devs should stay away and focus on good singleplayer games

 

[Infinity]

good, gaas and mobile are a crapshoot, traditional AAA devs should stay away and focus on good singleplayer games

Mobile and Gaas is where the recurring money is. But Yeah Triple A studios know for single player games should steer away from those genre.

 

[teezzy]

i tried giving mobile games a fair shake

there's potential there... but man...

 

[Gediminas]

i tried giving mobile games a fair shake

there's potential there... but man...

Yes, potential.. for milking low quality products.

 

[teezzy]

Yes, potential.. for milking low quality products.

Im always interested in new ways to play games. Its unfortunate how reliant the mobile market is on the f2p model

 

[TaySan]

Not surprised. Too much crap that overshadows the potentially good stuff on there. Personally i will always prefer a traditional home console experience over mobile any day of the week.

 

[Wraith Phantom]

Long may it continue. These mobile games are nickel and dime hustle ,othing but slot machines in disguise , con games. These games are literally paywalls and worse you never have a end. Just pay more. Scam games period. How this does not even get scrutinized by authority's is crazy.

 

[Box]

i tried giving mobile games a fair shake

there's potential there... but man...

It was decent in the early days with angry birds and fruit ninja

 

[Nhomnhom]

 

[ksdixon]

Because they have no soul to them. Tappy Tappy Tap.
Designed to limit players to buy a bag of magic beans gems/coins etc.

We need to get back to portable (real) gaming with real buttons.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

That's a pretty good success rate, I was expecting something above 95%.