{"id":18143,"date":"2017-04-27T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/superdata-digital-gaming-brought-in-8-billion-in-march\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:04:03","slug":"superdata-digital-gaming-brought-in-8-billion-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/superdata-digital-gaming-brought-in-8-billion-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperData: Digital gaming brought in $8 billion in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The game industry\u2019s\u00a0digital revolution is marching along smoothly.<\/p>\n

The worldwide digital gaming market grew 7 percent year-over-year in March, according to research firm SuperData<\/a>. This brought it to a new high of $8 billion. This continues a trend of growth in the digital gaming sector, as more gamers buy software via online stores and make in-game purchases. The mobile segment alone grew 13 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n

SuperData also released a chart of the 10 highest grossing digital games for console, PC, and mobile.<\/p>\n

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Above: SuperData Top 10 digital games for March 2017.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: SuperData<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

League of Legends (PC) and Clash Royale (iOS and Android) continue to dominate their platforms. Tom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is on the top for consoles after coming out on March 7. That is an excellent start for Ubisoft\u2019s new tactical shooter.<\/p>\n

SuperData noted that this is the first month since its launch that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive out-grossed Overwatch on PC. However, Overwatch is also available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while Counter-Strike is a PC exclusive, so it may have still beaten Valve\u2019s shooter overall. Still, it shows that Counter-Strike isn\u2019t ready to give up its spot as competitive gaming\u2019s most popular shooter without a fight.<\/p>\n

The research firm also stated that Hearthstone\u2019s mobile revenues doubled in March when compared to February. This was thanks to preorders for the Journey to Un\u2019Goro expansion, which came out in early April.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This post is part of the PC Gaming channel, presented by the Intel\u00ae<\/sup> Game Dev<\/a> program.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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The game industry\u2019s\u00a0digital revolution is marching along smoothly. The worldwide digital gaming market grew 7 percent year-over-year in March, according to research firm SuperData. This brought it to a new high of $8 billion. This continues a trend of growth in the digital gaming sector, as more gamers buy software via online stores and make… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming","category-general-info"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t