Tropicana Magazine Mar-Apr 2019 #123: Celebration of Beginnings

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GAME CHANGER Gaming Industry Boom – The Rise Of The Next Entertainment Market According to Reuters, gaming is now the world’s favorite form of entertainment, when compared to TV, movies and music. TM | MARCH/APRIL 2019 108
While TV is experiencing significant decline – TV revenues fell by 8% last year – the gaming sector’s sales are increasing at an annual rate of 10.7%. In China, game sales are climbing 14% per year, an alltime high from a single growth market. Games are being played by millions of people every day on their mobile, computers and consoles. One of the reasons why gaming is so popular is the millennials, i.e. those born between 1981 to 2000. Although gaming started more than 25 years ago, with Nintendo games on Atari and later on PlayStation, millennials find that gaming is more exciting, especially with the introduction of a powerful laptop with gaminggrade graphics and peripherals. The rise in the popularity of gaming is creating opportunities on a few fronts: game developers, game device suppliers, semiconductor companies, merchandisers and many more. “As video game engagement continues to grow, it could mean big returns for investors interested in the space,” quoted Samantha Greenberg, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Margate Capital Management on CNBC. As technology expands, so will gaming content, products, virtual reality (VR), special events and video game tournaments. These are just some of the ways the industry is turning into a ‘recurring revenue model’ and capitalizing on great demand. Gamers around the world would likely spend USD138 billion on games in 2018, according to Newzoo’s Global Games Market Report. The market research firm tracks usage and trends of video games, mobile and eSports. The figure represents a 13.3% increase year-to-year or an extra USD16.2 billion. Competitive eSports events are increasing as well. PGI 2018 or Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, a gaming tournament, brought competitors from all over the world to Berlin for a grand prize of USD2million, the largest in the tournament’s history. One of the main reasons for the popularity of the industry is that it is cheaper than going to the movies or subscribing to cable TV, as some of the games are free online. The dominance of gaming in our culture is evident in the reversal of the past relationships between the gaming industry and Hollywood and publishers. It used to be that games were developed from popular movies and books. Now it is often 109 MARCH/APRIL 2019 | TM
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