According to a report published by The All India Gaming Federation called “Online Gaming is a Life Skill,” 76% of gamers admitted that consistently playing by the best strategy to win a game, helped them foster strong analytical skills. Along with that, the report also found that India had recorded around 365 million online gamers in the year 2020. This number is expected to arrive at 510 million by the monetary year 2022.

The report looked to comprehend which skills were considered ‘life skills’ by gamers, how gamers obtained such skills, regardless of whether the working environment successfully taught them these skills, and which of these skills could be mastered through gaming. It further expressed that with 624 million online users in India in January 2021, India is set to reach 1 billion online gamers continuously by 2025 and our country’s mobile phone base is estimated to reach 820 million in the following two years.

The report likewise disclosed that 57% felt that an individual could hone common life skills with online games in a similar way that they would through an entire day in the work environment — 57% of men and 56 percent of women accepted this supposition. It additionally unloaded the life skills online gamers said were vital to gaming like reflexes (65%), and strategy and logic (68%) were viewed as the main two skills, followed intently by willpower (53%) and getting risk/return (52%); 46% expressed that memory was essential. While 40% of men accept that the greater part of online gaming skills is valuable for real-life encounters, the number drops to 34% for women.
The report concluded that 51% of women accepted that physical and mental abilities like ‘memory’ and ‘reflexes’ were fundamental for online gamers (contrasted with 33% of men). More than half of men (67%) felt that cognitive skills like strategy, logic, getting of risk and returns, and willpower were essentials for online gamers (contrasted with 49% of women).

Gamers likewise disclose that they showed more connection and compassion towards their online gaming co-worker in contrast with their genuine work connections. 56% of gamers said they were almost certain to be straightforward with their gaming partners than with their work associates (51%). The thing that matters was more connected among Gen Z (5%) versus those over the age of 45 (2 percent). A huge piece of Gen Z (43%) and millennials (41%) accepted that fellowships/connections made online between gamers could be just about as significant as genuine kinships.

Around one in every four gamers agreed that online gaming can be taken up as an occupation and this mirrors the change in the current business. Lockdowns and social distancing in the last year saw an expanding number of individuals transform their enthusiasm for gaming into a full-time profession. The 2019 India arrangement of a well-known versatile game saw the local finalist group win INR 4,50,000. The report additionally uncovered how today, mobile gamers have obviously dominated the PC or control center gamers, with just 12% Indians playing around on consoles when contrasted with 67% who utilize a mobile phone or tablet.

Credits: The Economic Times