For the past few months, India has been setting records in one more market. It has emerged as the country with the biggest number of games downloaded each month all over the world.

As per Sensor Tower research, the No. 1 market for worldwide mobile game downloads was India, which gathered 761.2 million installs, or roughly 16% of all-out overall downloads in March 2022. The Sensor Tower study shows that the United States ranked No. 2 for downloads at 8.7%, trailed by Brazil at 7.6%.

India is arising as perhaps the greatest market for the gaming industry. The classifications of gamers incorporate mobile, fantasy, AR, VR, consoles, and cloud-based.

A few numbers point in a similar direction. As indicated by Statista, India is among the main 5 markets by share of internet users who play video games on any gadget as of the third quarter of 2021. There are more than 834 million internet users in India. Of these, most play video games on the same gadget or another.

It’s not only the size of the market. Indian gaming companies are also utilizing cutting-edge technology to improve the playing experience. This is particularly significant in the class of fantasy games.

According to a report by Deloitte and FIFS, fantasy sports are arising as a vital driver for creating future-ready skills in fields like digital, AI/ML, cloud, and analytics, and have significantly affected the development of other auxiliary sectors. India has proactively taken huge steps in fantasy sports to turn into the biggest FS market on the planet with 200+ Indian operator’s organizations and 13 crore Indian users, outperforming the USA’s 50-year-old fantasy sports market.

As characterized by the report, fantasy sports are digital sports engagement platforms dependent completely upon real-life sports matches where users fabricate virtual teams with proxies of real players taking part in the forthcoming match or (match-day) and contend with the real-world statistical performances of these players.

India isn’t among the top revenue generators for the mobile game market on the planet. The average spending by Indian players is a lot lower than in different nations. Notwithstanding, it is as yet not a highly likely market from a revenue point of view.

Revenue in the mobile segment is projected to reach $3.8 billion in 2022. The profit is supposed to show a yearly development pace of 7.01%, prompting a projected market volume of $5.02bn by 2026. According to Statista research, the number of users in the mobile game segment is expected to reach 243.8 million by 2026.

In India, we are in a novel position where essentially all classes of games have become most famous in their mobile form. Since the greatest number of internet users has developed through mobile access, this is nevertheless normal.

Gaming organizations are additionally making a unique attempt to welcome the most recent technologies to mobile versions of games. The market for huge-screen and console-based games will develop alongside cell phones. “The homegrown market for online skill gaming is estimated to develop from the US $906 million in 2019 to more than US $3 billion in 2025. Rising innovations are being conveyed to create new encounters for users and players, “says Roland Lander, CED of the All India Gaming Federation.

“The Indian gaming industry is pushing ahead to guarantee that its products rule the homegrown market.” Innovation will play a vital role in this development.

Credit: Business Standard