What is the latest trend about mobile game industry in China?

The market share of Chinese game industry in the global game market declined in 2018 for the first time in past 6 years according to a recent report by iResearch. This was due to the suspension of new game version approval by regulatory authorities since Mar 2018. With the reopening of approval announced in Dec 2018, hopefully the Chinese market share will rise back.

Regardless of China or the global game market, the proportion of mobile games is constantly increasing. Despite the regulatory issues, China's mobile game market maintained an upward trend in 2018 with a market size of RMB 164.61 billion, an increase of 10.5% compared to previous year; and the user size was 626 million, an increase of 2.7% compared to previous year.

iResearch report revealed that the trend in 2019 for game industry is to break the obstacle between different devices, allowing the same game to be played online on different platforms including mobile, PC and consoles.