Asia-Pacific Mobile Gaming Market – Assessment of China, Japan, South Korea and India (2018-2028)

Overview

Executive Summary

The online gaming market has expanded quickly during the past decade in Asia Pacific. Online gaming's popularity is largely attributed to its simplicity and accessibility. In comparison to internet users, the number of online gamers is currently growing four times faster. As bandwidth and connectivity have risen, gamers throughout the world are spending more of their free time online.

Asia-Pacific dominates the global market for mobile gaming, with China, Japan, and South Korea all showing promising signs of future expansion.

Additionally, the mobile gaming sector is growing quickly in nations like Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, all of which have high potential.

Market Performance in China
China, one of the most important economies in Asia, is heavily investing in new technology. Also, the country's gaming business saw a major COVID-related spike in 2020, which had a good effect on the Asia Pacific Mobile Gaming Industry.

The phenomenal increase of mini-games played within mobile apps like WeChat without installing another programme is what is fuelling China's gaming industry's expansion. Mini-games that have major social components are highly common and simple to play across the country.

Market Performance in Japan
More than half of the revenue for the entire Japanese video game industry was generated by mobile gaming in 2021. Japan is home to the major companies like Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, and Sega were first created. Due to these reasons, Japan has consistently made a significant contribution to the growth of the gaming industry.

Market Performance in Korea
According to estimates, Korea has 28.9 million gamers or roughly 71.3% of the country's population. Mobile games dominate the whole Korean gaming business since Korea is a mobile-first nation and has the highest internet connection speed in the world.

Market Performance in India
In India, there are already more than 140 million paid gamers, and by 2025, that figure is expected to increase by more than 200 million. On a monthly basis number of paid gamers is increasing at a rapid pace.

A study by Makreo Research titled "Asia-Pacific Mobile Gaming Market - Appraisal of China, Japan, South Korea, and India (2018-2028)" examines the mobile gaming market in Asian nations. The report assesses the historical and contemporary mobile gaming landscape in the main Asian nations of China, Japan, South Korea, and India. The reader can use this study to evaluate the gaming industry's growth prospects in the aforementioned regions as well as market performance in the pre-and post-COVID era. The ratio of qualitative and quantitative variables in the report is ideal.

The report examines the mobile gaming market revenue, regional contribution, player statistics, types of games, and other related factors. 

Geographies Assessed

• China
• South Korea
• Japan
• India

Key Questions Answered

1. How the Asia-Pacific Online Gaming industry is performing and what is the potential of online gaming sector in the Asian market?
2. What effect has COVID-19 had so far on the performance of the industry? What effects may we expect in the near future?
3. What are the main forces and inhibitors influencing the mobile gaming sector?
4. What is the market share of the major Asian countries contributing in the mobile gaming market in terms of users and spending?
5. How China mobile gaming market performed in the past and what is the present revenue growth?
6. Why does India only make up a small portion of Asian mobile gaming revenue while being one of the largest countries in terms of games downloads?
7. What is the positioning of South Korea and Japan in Asian mobile gaming market?