world today
by bhupendra lodhi
Sony remains the biggest video game company in the world in 2022. The Japanese tech giant now makes most of its gaming revenue, which totaled $24.9 billion last year, with the PlayStation 5 which came out in 2020 and became the world’s most popular next-gen video game console. However, Sony also produces many original video games for its console.
The world’s largest software company is also the world’s second-largest video game company. Microsoft made around $16.3 billion with Xbox Game Studios, the company’s gaming branch. The gaming revenue was primarily generated by Microsoft’s new next-gen Xbox Series X/S sales of course.
Despite remaining in third place in this ranking of the Top 10 biggest video game companies in 2022, last year was still a very successful year for Japanese video game company Nintendo, helping the company to remain the world’s biggest purely video game developer.
One of the well known names in gaming industry, Tencent is a chinese internet conglomerate with a revenue of 14 billion $. It had flagship games like PUBG, Honor of Kings
Activision comes fifth in the list with a whopping revenue of 8.9 billion $. It had flagship games like Call of Duty series.
Electronic Arts(EA) comes sixth in the list with a whopping revenue of 560 crores USD. It had flagship games like FIFA, Knockout series, etc .
Electronic Arts(EA) comes seventh in the list with a whopping revenue of 222 crores EUR. It had flagship games like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, etc .