2. Growth Drivers
- Figure: AR and VR gaming can drive growth of physical gaming zones
- Figure: 2019 will see the creation of large national gaming brands
3. India Online Game Insights
- Online gamers grew to Millions in 2018
- Billions game apps were downloaded in 2018
- India is now one of the top five markets for mobile gaming globally
- Figure: Online Games Revenue in INR Billion, 2017- 2021E
- Figure: Online Gamers in India in Million, 2015-2018
4. Smartphone Gaming
- Gaming Smartphone shipments (% of overall Smartphone shipments)
- 2018 saw large investments in gaming hardware and software
- Online Gaming Revenues
- Online gaming revenues grew to Billions in 2018
- Casual gaming will reach INR Billions
- Real money gaming will reach INR Billions
- Percent of gamers paid to play real money games i.e., subscription or in-app purchase
5. Regulations for Online Gaming
- The segment has proactively created self-regulating industry bodies
- Figure: India Android Phone - Average Monthly Time Spent on Apps by Category MAU in Month Per Hours
- Figure: Gaming Smartphone Shipments (in Percent of Smartphone Shipments),2018 - 2021E
- Figure: India’s Online Gaming Segment & New Launches by Several Global Players
- Figure: Revenue Sources by Ad & Subscription in Percent
- Figure: Indian Gaming Companies by Main Investors & Total Funding
6. Future outlook
- Fantasy sports can cross 100 million players within two years
- Multi-player gaming will continue to grow
- Investor interest in Indian gaming will increase
7. Legal Framework
- 276th Law Commission Report on ‘Legal Framework: Gambling and Sports Betting Including in Cricket in India’ dated July 2018
- The Public Gaming Act, 1867
- Crypto currency and Online Gaming
Methodology
In this report, for analyzing the future trends for the studied market during the forecast period, the publisher has incorporated rigorous statistical and econometric methods, further scrutinized by secondary, primary sources and by in-house experts, supported through their extensive data intelligence repository. The market is studied holistically from both demand and supply-side perspectives. This is carried out to analyze both end-user and producer behavior patterns, in the review period, which affects price, demand and consumption trends. As the study demands to analyze the long-term nature of the market, the identification of factors influencing the market is based on the fundamentality of the study market.
Through secondary and primary researches, which largely include interviews with industry participants, reliable statistics, and regional intelligence, are identified and are transformed to quantitative data through data extraction, and further applied for inferential purposes. The publisher's in-house industry experts play an instrumental role in designing analytic tools and models, tailored to the requirements of a particular industry segment. These analytical tools and models sanitize the data & statistics and enhance the accuracy of their recommendations and advice.
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Secondary Research
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