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Surely sooner or later every video gaming fan has a natural question: how much do large corporations that develop and publish video games earn in a year? Especially in order to satisfy our information curiosity, experts of the analytical agency Newzoo make quite interesting infographics and annual reports. This time in the field of their attention it was precisely the annual income of the largest players in the electronic entertainment industry, while analysts compared it to the figures of the previous year.
What was found out in the process of calculations? The first place is held by the Chinese corporation Tencent. And it's not surprising. After all, she owns a controlling stake in Riot Games, the only game of which is the MMO project League of Legends. In addition to the gaming business, Tencent also maintains its QQ fast messaging network, as well as a cloud storage that provides 10 TB of free space for each user. Revenue for 2014 in the case of the Chinese corporation amounted to 7.2 billion dollars, which is 37% higher than last year.
The second place is deservedly occupied by the Japanese electronic giant Sony with an annual revenue of 6 billion and an annual increase of 27%. Amazing is the fact that for the first time in several years the corporation managed to overtake its main competitor in the gaming arena - Microsoft, which managed to generate revenue of 5 billion and demonstrate a much more modest growth of 3%. The fault of course, of course, is the rather difficult situation with the new Xbox One console, which started not so successfully, as it was originally intended.
The fourth place is occupied by the corporation EA with 4.5 billion profit. Following it goes Activision Blizzard with 4.4 billion. And only after them you can see in the list of two inseparable friends from the world of mobile games - Apple and Google. The first corporation managed to earn on games 3.2 billion dollars, and the second - 2.6 billion, and Google's growth rate is much higher than that of the competitor (89% versus 35%).
The eighth place went to the developers of Candy Crash Saga from King.com. They managed to earn slightly more than 2.2 billion dollars in 2014. Closing the top ten leaders of the company Nintendo and Ubisoft with revenues of 2 and 1.8 billion respectively.
If you are interested, the most development of video games brings in the territory of countries such as the USA, China, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom. Russia in this ranking is the twelfth place, which is also very good, given the level of domestic piracy. Experts predict that very soon Russia can enter the top ten most profitable in terms of sales of video games of the countries.
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