The variety of recreation studios in Brazil grew by 3.2% year-over-year to 1,042 in 2023, in response to a brand new report.
The Second Nationwide Survey of Brazil’s Video games Business, carried out by the Brazil Video games export program – a partnership between Abragames and ApexBrasil – confirmed that the nation’s trade employed 13,225 individuals, up 6.3% Y/Y.
Most Brazil’s studios are primarily based in São Paulo, which is dwelling to 302 video games corporations. Rio de Janeiro has 107, whereas Rio Grande do Sul has 69.
Regionally, 56% of studios are primarily based within the South East, 20% within the South, 16% within the North East, 6% within the Mid West, and a couple of% within the North.
Between 2020 to 2022, native builders launched greater than 2,600 video games. The variety of studios creating their very own IPs additionally elevated to 93% in 2022.
In the meantime, 13% of studios licensed their very own IPs, whereas 10% of studios licensed third-party merchandise (down from 18% in 2021).
Most of Brazil’s builders labored throughout PC (24.9%) and cellular (24%). Nonetheless, console recreation manufacturing continues to develop, reaching 19% in 2022, with handheld console manufacturing doubling to 4%.
Market estimates
General, Brazil’s video games builders had been estimated to have generated $251.6 million in income in 2022. The figures had been from a mix of survey outcomes and AppMagic information. It needs to be famous {that a} new technique to calculate this determine was used for 2022, which means correct comparisons for development can’t be made to earlier years.
Income from the sale of video games through digital platforms elevated from 54% to 62% in 2022, whereas income from direct gross sales decreased from 30% to 23%. Microtransactions adopted at 20%, whereas advertisements generated 16%.
PC video games had been mentioned to generate probably the most income for Brazil’s builders at 44%, whereas cellular accounted for 23% and consoles 12%.
“The information offered within the second version of the survey additionally reinforces Brazil’s place as some of the promising areas for offering Exterior Growth providers, as had already been indicated within the stories of the XDS Summit, a world reference on the topic,” mentioned Abragames president Rodrigo Terra.
“The work accomplished by Brazilians has been assembly worldwide calls for with high quality and standing out, amongst different elements, for creative, engineering, and co-dev points. In consequence, we’ve half of Brazilian builders working in different markets with greater than 70% of their revenues coming from varied nations.”
You possibly can learn the total model of the Second Nationwide Survey of Brazil’s Video games Business right here.