{"id":90133,"date":"2016-04-22T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90133"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:06:17","slug":"mobile-gaming-set-to-overtake-pc-and-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/90133-mobile-gaming-set-to-overtake-pc-and-consoles","title":{"rendered":"Mobile gaming set to overtake PC and Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile gaming revenue is set to overtake the revenue generated by PC and Console games, according to a report from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mobile-game-revenue-to-surpass-console-and-pc-study-says-1461265949\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A study published by Newzoo showed that smartphone and tablet games are expected to represent 37% of worldwide software sales, with PC games and console games only comprising 32% and 31% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Although the majority of popular mobile games are free to download, they are designed to gain income by implementing mechanics such as micro-transactions and advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Newzoo said that<strong> mobile gaming is the main focus of every gaming company&#8217;s strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main causes behind mobile growth are multiplayer-based games such as Clash of Clans.<\/p>\n<p>Although mobile gaming is surpassing PC and console game sales, all three platforms are experiencing strong growth which will be supported by the rising popularity of VR devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/89727-the-biggest-movie-releases-this-week-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Acer reveals insane Predator PC, gaming laptop and monitor\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90097-acer-reveals-insane-predator-gaming-laptop-pc-and-monitor.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Acer reveals insane Predator PC, gaming laptop and monitor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Corsair unveils new ultra-fast mechanical keyboards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90087-corsair-unveils-new-ultra-fast-mechanical-keyboards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Corsair unveils new ultra-fast mechanical keyboards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile gaming income is set to overtake the revenue generated by PC and console games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":73451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[31,155,2664,8299,11900,18203,15397],"class_list":["post-90133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-console","tag-gaming","tag-mobile","tag-newzoo","tag-overtake","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90147,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133\/revisions\/90147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}