The evolution of mobile gaming worldwide

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Mobile video games are a very prosperous market today. If today we are all used to playing with our phones and browsing the Play Store, you should know that it has not always been easy to link both worlds. Video games or online casino games are experiencing exponential growth to become this year the first, well above the PC and consoles, to make the gaming sector profitable.

Mobile Phones Have Truly Changed the Way Gamers Consume their Games

The time when you played on your old mobile phone preceded the era of modern smartphones, and as such, this way of playing has an important role in the evolution of mobile games. At the time, mobile games were considered a secondary use of mobile phones, nothing more than just a way to beat the boredom that would never have entered into your decision to acquire a specific brand of phone. This is not surprising considering that at that time the screens of telephones were very small, that the handsets were not powerful and that the devices were covered with buttons, little more aesthetic than a calculator. Today games are an essential criterion for the purchase of mobile phones.

We Should be 3 billion Players Worldwide by 2023

The estimated number of gamers worldwide in 2021 is about 2.6 billion people, or about a third of the world’s population and half of which came from Asian countries. It is important to note that the number of players has increased by more than 500 million in the last 2 years, and that forecasts indicate an increase of another 400 million by the end of 2023. We should be almost 3 billion players at around the world in less than a year! As the fastest growing segment of the gaming industry, mobile games continue to break records and generate billions in revenue each year. In addition, statistics show that the number of mobile gamers in Asia reached almost 1.3 billion in 2021, more than in North America, Europe and Latin America. Mobile gaming revenue in the region has increased by 46% over the past two years, from $46 billion in 2019 to $68 billion in 2021.