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Shooter Games Revealed

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Oct, 2022 Key Insights into
The games, the players, and the industry

• Genre Revenues in 2022
• Definition and Revenues per Platform
• Key Game Engagement Facts
• Gamer Demographics and Personas
• Top Markets and Games
• Games Live Streaming Viewership
• Game Themes, Modes, Mechanics and
Monetization, Cross -Genre Overlap
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Welcome to our free report about Shooter Games!
Shooters are among the most popular game genres across the world and are played
heavily across all gaming platforms .
In this report, we include some of the high -level takeaways about this exciting genre .
We will dive into the split between the different platforms on which Shooter games are
played, we will explore gamer demographics and playing habits, game rankings and
even Shooter game live streaming viewership .We will also go over some of the
different markets where Shooters are most popular and define the most popular game
themes, mechanics, and monetization options in the genre .
This is apreview of the much broader scope of data we cover on Shooter Games in our
Newzoo Expert platform .To contextualize the data even further, we also include some
high -level takeaways from our Consumer Insights Games and Esports research ,along
with general insights from our Global Games Market Report .
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offerings .We hope you enjoy this free report!
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The Newzoo Games Taxonomy provides a
granular, comprehensive view of the games
market and the segments within.
The taxonomy consists of 132 variables in 12
categories –allowing you to segment your
target market to any niche and identify or
benchmark your competitors down to the
smallest detail.
Battle
Royale games are not included in the
Shooter Games genre and are tagged as an
independent genre in the Newzoo Games
Taxonomy.

in the world
Source: Newzoo’s Global Games Market Report, released July 2022. Battle Royale games are not included in the Shooter Games genre and are tagged as an independent genre in the Newzoo Games Taxonomy.
is estimated to be the fifth
highest -revenue generating genre across
all platforms in 2022 .
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Shooters are among the most popular genres and are played heavily across
all gaming platforms.
is to defeat enemies by shooting them and is played
either individually or in a team.
On PC, shooters such as Doom, Quake, Half -Life, and Counter -Strike
popularized the genre in the 1990s. Many people view N64 game GoldenEye
007 as the genre’s original pioneer on console, followed by Xbox launch title
Halo: Combat Evolved.
Today’s most prominent shooter franchises, including Call of Duty,
Battlefield, and Overwatch, heavily lean on online competitive play and have
amassed a powerful following for live streaming and video content.
The weapons of choice in most shooters are firearms, but this is not always
the case; Nintendo’s Splatoon, for example, has the player shooting ink at
opponents.
If the game’s main gameplay loop sees the player taking control of a vehicle, we categorize the genre as Vehicular Combat, not included in this report. Battle Royale games are not included in the Shooter Games genre and are tagged as an independent genre in the Newzoo Taxonomy.
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Genre popularity and playing habits in August 2022
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Rank by Monthly Active
Users on PC (Steam)
Rank by Monthly Active
Users on Console
Rank by Average Monthly
Playtime
Rank by Average Titles Played
per player, per month
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimate for PC (Steam), PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not inc lud ed. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this page are bas ed on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter”.
Rank by Average Daily
Sessions
Ranking vs. other genres
Ranking vs. other genres

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Base: Players that have played shooter games in the last 6 months Base: Players that have played shooter games in the last 6 months
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Source: Newzoo Consumer Insights –Games & Esports 2022 (Global weighted average across 36 markets) Base: (Active Residential Developed) online population aged 10 -65 (or 50 in selected markets), who have played Shooter video games on a PC, console, or mobile device in the past 6 months (n=19,544)

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Share of players in each persona that play Shooters
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As gaming continues to expand its reach, gamers
themselves become a more diverse and varied group.
Using our proprietary , we
looked at the share of shooter players by gamer
persona (Looking only at people who play games –
which is why the Backseat Viewer and Lapsed Gamer
are excluded).
The more core personas, namely Ultimate Gamers
and All -Round Enthusiasts are most likely to be
shooter players. In fact, as many as
played at least one Shooter game in the past
6 months!
However, almost all persona groups have a
reasonable share of players who enjoy shooters, and
this is likely to be because the genre now
encompasses quite a broad range of games, from
CS:GO to Splatoon to Bubble Shooter.
Source: Consumer Insights –Games & Esports 2022 (Global weighted average across 36 markets) Base: (Active Residential Developed) online population aged 10-65 (or 50 in selected markets), who have played video games on a PC, console, or mobile device in the past 6 months (n= 60,020 ) Newzoo ’sproprietary gamer segmentation wherein playing, viewing, owning, and socializing/other gaming engagement are the four main di me nsions for classification.

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Motivation 1
Motivation 2
Motivation 3
Motivation 4
Motivation 5
Source: Consumer Insights –Games & Esports 2022 (Global weighted average across 36 markets). Base: (Active Residential Developed) online population aged 10 -65 (or 50 in selected markets), who have played Shooter video games on a PC, console, or mobile device in the past 6 months (n=19,544); Total Shooter payers (n = 13,659)1 Payers: Past 6 months players who, on average, spend money on a monthly basis on games on a PC, console, or mobile device. Spe nding money includes gifts, downloadable content, subscriptions, and other microtransactions.
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Base: Total Shooter Players (past 6 months) Base: Total Shooter Payers (past 6 months)
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by Monthly Active Users (MAU) in August 2022
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimate for PC (Steam), PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not included. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calcu lat ions and aggregates on this page are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter”.
Player Share for Shooters -Percentage of total player base that played
a Shooter title in August 2022
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by MAU in August 2022
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimate for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not included. N ewz oo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this page are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter”. Battle Royale games are not included in the Shooter Games genre and are tagged as an independent genre in the Newzoo Taxonomy .
by MAU in August 2022

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Genre Rank by Hours Watched on Twitch and
Facebook Gaming
Genre Rank by Hours streamed by creators on
Twitch and Facebook Gaming
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimated live streaming hours watched and streamed(broadcasted) on Twitch and Facebook Gaming for Shooters across PC, Console, and Mobile. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genr e a nd multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this page are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Sho ote r”.
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on Twitch and Facebook Gaming in August 2022
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimated live streaming hours watched and streamed(broadcasted) on Twitch and Facebook Gaming fo r S hooters across PC, Console, and Mobile. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calcula tio ns and aggregates on this page are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter”.
on Twitch and Facebook Gaming in August 2022

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Newzoo Expert, August 2022 . Estimate for PC (Steam), PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not included. Newzoo ’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this pa ge are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter ”.
Player Share for Shooters -Percentage of total player base that played a Shooter
title on PC (Steam) & Console in August 2022
Adventure, Battle Royale, and Sports games were
the most popular among Shooter players in
August 2022.
Strategy and Simulation were among the genres
with the least player overlap with Shooter games.
56% of monthly active users that played Shooters have also played Adventure games in August 2022.
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Player Share for Shooters -Percentage of total player base that
played a Shooter title on PC (Steam) & Console in August 2022
68% of monthly active users that played Shooters have played Shooters with the Contemporary War theme in August 2022.
Player Share for Shooters -Percentage of total player base that
played a Shooter title on PC (Steam) & Console in August 2022.
94% of monthly active users that played Shooters have played Shooters with the Levels / Maps mechanic in August 2022.
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimate for PC (Steam), PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not inc lud ed. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this pa ge are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter”.

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Player Share for Shooters -Percentage of total player base that
played a Shooter title on PC (Steam) & Console in August 2022
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Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimate for PC (Steam), PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not inc lud ed. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this pa ge are based on games tagged with the primary genre “Shooter”.

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by Player Share for PC & Console Shooters in August 2022
Newzoo Expert, August 2022. Estimate for PC (Steam), PlayStation, and Xbox games covering 37 markets. China and India not inc lud ed. Newzoo’s Game Taxonomy allows tagging of games
with a single primary genre and multiple secondary genres. All calculations and aggregates on this page are based on games ta gge d with the primary genre “Shooter”.
Pay -to -Play is the top monetization option for
PC & Console Shooters, covering almost the
entire player base.
97% of shooter players have played games that
use In -App Purchases as a monetization tool.
Advertising is the least used monetization tool
for Shooters on PC & Console.
89% of monthly active users that played Shooters have also played Pay -to-Play games in August 2022.
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