Exchange4Media.com: The Indian gaming market is expected to touch $50 million (mobile gaming not included) by the end of this year.
Quentin Staes-Polet, Director, Digital Media, Asia Pacific, IBM Business Consulting Services, said, “In India, the gaming industry is growing at an explosive rate. The country has the potential to become a major hub for outsourcing computer games. The growth of online games is driving the bandwidth growth globally. However, there are a few hitches and one of the major issues is that of billing, and this can be done through mobile, prepaid card and so on. Billing is extremely critical for the industry to succeed and once this is solved, all other things will fall in place.”
In India, the gaming market is estimated to be $4 million for original games and $40 million for pirated ones. Indeed, a huge loss of revenue for the publishers. Alok Kejriwal, CEO, Contest2Win, predicted that in the next five to seven years India would have some 30-35 million gamers, and this growth would be driven by broadband.
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