Worldwide digital games market

Worldwide digital spending grew 11% in January year over year. Gamers spent $8.9B billion digitally on games across all platforms in January. Continuing their decline, the Social and Pay-to-Play MMO segments shrank 5% and 9%, respectively. The Premium PC segment grew 24%, while the digital console market grew a staggering 57% year-over-year. Console’s fantastic growth was due in part to the success of Monster Hunter: World and the triple-A slate released during the holidays. Mobile and Free-to-Play MMO segments continued to grow, 11% and 1%, respectively.

• Dragonball FighterZ is the most successful fighting game digital console launch of all time.
• Monster Hunter World launches successfully world-wide, despite being a Japanese-heavy IP historically.
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege is coming back to life on both platforms due to Ubisoft’s continued support of the game.

PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite trains continue. The two leading battle royale titles earned over $200 million in digital revenue from Console and PC this month. Fortnite hit record high engagement once again.

Dragonball FighterZ and Monster Hunter World both have strong launches. We estimate that Monster Hunter World and Dragonball FighterZ sold over 1.5 million digital console units despite launching late in January.

Overwatch sits in a great spot as Overwatch League (OWL) launches. Overwatch had over 15  million MAU playing on all platforms in January. Combined additional content revenue across both platforms also doubled year-over-year.