According to a new report, 83 percent of games released on mobile platforms fail within three years of launch. In addition, 43 percent of mobile games are cancelled during development.
The report, conducted by Atomik Research for SuperScale’s Good Games Don’t Die and shared by Eurogamer’s sister site GamesIndustry.biz, was based on interviews with 500 game developers, from both here in the UK and across the pond in the US.
The report stated the majority of mobile games reached peak revenue within the first 12 months of their release. While 76 percent reach their peak revenue in the first year, only four percent peak in the second year of release.
This could, perhaps, be due to new content released for mobile games, with the report finding that 38 percent of developers don’t release regular updates for their titles. Less than half provide their playerbase with monthly updates, and just five percent of games actually receive support seven years post-launch.