World video video games income is anticipated to achieve $197 billion this yr, marking a 7.5% improve on final yr.
That’s in accordance with a brand new report from online game market knowledge, analysis and insights agency Newzoo.
Though the official gross sales figures for 2025 have clearly not but been confirmed on condition that the yr isn’t over but, Newzoo’s World Video games Market Report and Forecasts makes use of knowledge from January to November 2025 to establish gross sales patterns and forecast the full figures for the yr.
In line with Newzoo’s forecasts, console gaming is anticipated to generate international income of $45 billion this yr, up 4.2% in comparison with 2024, whereas cellular gaming is forecast to achieve $108 billion, up 7.7% year-on-year.
The largest progress is anticipated to be in PC gaming, nevertheless, which is anticipated to generate income of $43 billion by the tip of 2025 – a ten.4% improve on final yr’s figures.
Principal market analyst Michiel Buijsman famous that the 2025 forecast displays “gamers spending extra deeply inside video games and ecosystems they already worth, somewhat than progress being pushed by a sudden growth of the participant base”.
Newzoo additionally tracked the highest 10 PC sport releases, by way of income, throughout six Western markets (USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) from January to November 2025.
Its figures discovered that Battlefield 6 generated probably the most income on PC this yr thus far, adopted by Schedule I, ARC Raiders, Monster Hunter Wilds, Borderlands 4, EA Sports activities FC 26, REPO, Oblivion Remastered, Civilization 7 and Dune: Awakening.
In the meantime, on console, the very best income was earned by EA Sports activities FC 26, adopted by NBA 2K26, Battlefield 6, EA Sports activities Madden NFL 26, MLB The Present 25, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 26, Ghost of Yotei, Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Borderlands 4.
The figures recommend that sports activities video games are nonetheless massive cash spinners on console – 5 of the highest 10 console video games are sports activities titles – whereas the PC high 10’s quite a few AA titles and new IP spotlight the format’s “relative openness to new IP and system-driven design”.
Newzoo’s report will deliver a constructive distinction to Wednesday’s information that {hardware} gross sales and bodily sport spending within the US had the worst November in 30 years.
Market analysis firm Circana reported that 1.6 million items of online game {hardware} had been offered within the US in November 2025 – the bottom November whole since 1.4 million again in 1995 – whereas {hardware} spending for the month was $695 million, a 27% year-on-year drop and the bottom November {hardware} spend within the US since 2005.
By way of bodily software program within the US, spending fell 14% in November 2025 in comparison with November 2024, making it an all-time low for a November since monitoring began in 1995.
