Games market research group Newzoo just released its list of the top 25 public game companies with the highest revenue, based on the first half of 2015. Newzoo expects games to be worth $91.5 billion this year due to the growth of new consoles, online gaming, and the mobile phones.
Chinese investment firm Tencent is at the top by earning $4.2 billion due to their popular PC games. Microsoft is in second with roughly $2.7 billion. Considering that Microsoft has so many exclusives lined up for the next few months, and Halo 5 hasn’t been counted because it just released a few days ago, it’s a great year for the company. It’s the most successful console manufacturer this year and was so in 2014 too.
Source: VentureBeat
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