The data displays mobile phone gaming penetration in the U.S. from 2011 to 2015 as well as a forecast until 2020. According to the calculations, nearly 56% of the United States population were playing mobile games in 2016. All in all, the source projected the penetration would grow from approx. 41% in 2013 to 63.7% in 2020.
In 2016, U.S. gamers were believed to play an average of 3.6 mobile games per month. The most popular mobile game genre to be downloaded in the U.S. as of July 2016 was arcade, with 63.1 million downloads, closely followed by action games which recorded 61.
