One of the most popular video games during the year 2020 was Among Us , a title developed by InnerSloth that saw as a catastrophic year in many respects as the economy gave impressive results in its title. Especially in mobile and tablet versions , where a large number of users located in Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States or South Korea put an end to boredom with titles such as the aforementioned Among Us or Fortnite.
Today we have been able to learn through Facebook a report on the evolution of the most played titles during 2020 on mobile platforms and that since last March, the date on which the Covid-19 pandemic and confinements began in cities worldwide. This caused the use of video games to grow until October, making countries like the United Kingdom experience an increase in their use of almost 50%, incorporating a total of 8.6 million new players.
United States grew at its base 28% with 28 million, Germany one 25% to 6.5 million and Korea of the South with 34%, approximately 9.4 million. As a curious fact, those who have recently joined statistically tend to spend more money, having an average of 16.62 dollars in the United Kingdom compared to the 4.20 that were spent before the start of the pandemic.
Streaming platforms have also fared very well, specifically Facebook Gaming,which has added more than 1 billion hours of views along with the 1.7 billionthat YouTube Gaming reached . Twitch continues to lead these numbers with 4.7 billion hours on its platform.