How Video Gaming In India Is Growing Into A Billion-Dollar Industry

By Calvin Chirayath, Business student

Mom: Dinner's ready!

Son: 10 more minutes, Mom, after this game!!

This is the state of each and every gamer's house, which is being dealt with across the globe.But while this was accepted in many other countries, India was less than inclined towards gaming from the start. 

Looking at the growth the the Industry over the years,we have finally come to a point where families have started being supportive of this as a career choice. Rather than opting 2-5 other job's, more and more gamer's have started taking their career seriously.

Indian Market:

The Indian gaming industry is growing rapidly, with monster company's liken Alibaba,Tencent, Nazara investing in it. One of the top 5 countries for mobile game Industry is already worth than $1 Billion . India has now more than 250 game development companies, with at least 2 startups coming up every month.

Estimates suggest that India's mobile game market will reach $1.1 billion by 2021, and number projected to become 628 million.

The trend in the popularity of game is partly due to the increased accessibility that the public has to them; at the tap of a screen, one can download games onto a smart device. Evidently, the increase in mobile gaming is solely due to increase in smartphone adoption, currently this year there are over 590 million smartphone user's.

Many game developers such as Moon frog, playsimple and Mech mocha are investing in the growth of smartphone usage to build up their businesses.

 PUBG In India

PUBG achieved 100 Million+ combined app downloads in iOs & android globally till Dec 2019 and daily active users of 25 Million+ in mobile platform.

Affordable data packs and plans has also led to the growth of smartphone market as well as more & more people using social media.The launch of JIO services brought thus revolutionary change and the makers of PUBG couldn't have asked for a better time to launch in India than in 2018.

PUBG has absolutely changed the mobile gaming platform in india, with more number of players from India. PUBG has definitly changed the streaming world in India, with more number of streamers rising each day.

More number of parents can now be seen accepting their child to be a streamer. India has lot of famous streamers such as Dynamo, Mortal, Casetto ,Carryminati ,Kareebo, Kronton, Owais, jake shukla who make's lakhs of money just by streaming and commenting on it.

So if you are a really good gamer,and you believe in yourself that you can stream and make a livelihood out of it,Then don't look back just go for it.

Thank You :)