The data were compiled and released Thursday by research firm Distimo. The data represents global totals.
In revenue terms, game revenues rose from 64% of all revenues in September 2012 to 77% of all revenues in September of 2013. Shares of game revenue from among the top 400 grossing apps show that iPhone games grab 84% of total iPhone download revenues, iPad games get 73% of all iPad download revenues, and Google Play games get a huge 92% share of download revenues.
Role-playing games generated the largest share of revenue — 14% — at Apple’s App Store in September 2013. Strategy games brought in 13% of revenues and action games 12%. At Google Play, the most revenue was generated by Arcade & Action games, 38%, followed by Casual games with 31%.
Distimo notes that the Asian market was the most reliant on games. In Korea, 94% of Google Play’s revenues came from games and iOS games generated 84% of Apple’s App Store revenues in Taiwan.
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