Mukesh Ambani, Ruchir Sharma Talk About Online Gaming Potential in India
P🎐otential of gaming 𒅌in India is the talk of the town. The big guns in the business and research sectors are talking about gaming’s growth potential and driving factors in the country
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest manꦯ, while recently speaking with Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella, said, “Gaming will be bigger than music, movies and television shows put together… There is a huge potential” for .
Ambani sees a huge opportunity for gaming in India due to increasing broadband connectivity and a huge supply gap in the Indian gaming market. He didn’t comment if his new wireless ups🌼tart Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. will v🐬enture into gaming.
As per a KPMG 2019 , revenue from online gaming is expecℱted to rise from 43.8 billion rupees ($610 million) in the year 2018 to 118.8 billion rupees by the year 2023.
Writer-Analyst Ruchir Sharma also recently🎃 said that gaming is India’s new favourite pastime, about the top 10 trends of the decade to come. In the chat, using research data pr⛄ovided by Sharma, Roy pointed out that, compared to music and films, gaming has a bigger global market size.
Sharma thinks that this growth in the gaming sector is not just because of smartphone use or internet penetr⛄ation, but also because there has been a substantial improvement in th𝔉e quality of games being served to users.
As per Sharma’s research data, more money is being spent on gaming than other, more common, pastimes—Twitter has $8 revenue per user, Facebook is at $19, Google is at $27, whil⭕e Fortnight, which is a game, is at $96. There is a rise in the game app development companies in the Indian market, and India also has the highest game downloads in the world. However, Sharma thinks that for the mind space that gaming occꦆupies among users, it is not being monetised as much as the market opportunity allows.
Commenting on the talks about gaming among the the likes of Ambani and Sharma, Nitish Mittersain, Founder and MD of casual and real-money ♉gaming company Nazara Technologies Ltd., said, “It is really thrilling for us to see stalwarts like Mr Mukesh Ambani and Ruchir Sharma finally talk about gaming and the big opportunity in India today. As India’s largest esports and mobile gaming platform, we at Nazara are witnessing a strong growth momentum in all of our offerings and believe that it will surge even further. We look f🐻orward to continue working with the ecosystem to help make India the biggest gaming market in the world.”
Nazara recently announced its intention to invest about US🔥$20 million in startups in gaming and sports in the Indian sub-continent, Africa and Mi🅰ddle-East over the next one yea🅘r.
