Newzoo Lifts 2025 Games-Market Outlook to $197 Billion on PC, Mobile Strength

Overview

• The projection represents 7.5% year-over-year growth using January–November data and remains a pre–year-end estimate.
• Platform breakdown: mobile $108 billion (+7.7% YoY), console $45 billion (+4.2%), PC $43 billion (+10.4%), with PC showing the fastest growth.
• Newzoo’s Western PC ranking through November places Battlefield 6 first by revenue, with all top-10 PC titles classified as premium releases.
• Console earnings skew toward sports series, with EA Sports FC 26 leading Newzoo’s 2025 console revenue list.
• Circana reports near-term US softness for November: 1.6 million hardware units sold, hardware spending down 27% year over year, and physical software down 14%.