Research firm Ovum report predicts 2016 Asia-Pacific gaming industry is expected to double

Beijing Time March 29 Evening News, research company Ovum in a report in Thursday, said the rapid popularity of smartphones, the 2016 Asia-Pacific region digital gaming industry will be at least double, to 30.3 billion U.S. dollars.

Ovum said that in the next four years, the Asia-Pacific region smartphone shipments will reach 18%, a higher than the global average of 2%, 2016 Asia-Pacific region digital gaming industry will reach 30.3 billion dollars; players will be more than 1 billion people, of whom about 900 million use mobile devices, or a single use of mobile devices, Or use a PC at the same time.

Ovum analyst Naiha Dihariya (Neha Dharia) said the Asia-Pacific market has played an important role in digital game retailing and will be more prominent in the future. Dihariya said: "Asia-Pacific market has driven the development of global digital games, where the biggest contribution to retail sales is the MMOGs (massively multiplayer simultaneous online game) game, and the fastest-growing mobile games. ”

Ovum also points out that casual games and social games are also critical to the digital gaming industry. Mobile operators will also benefit from the increase in the number of casual gamers. (Li Ming)