Online Gaming Market Infographic

HAMBURG, Germany - April 29, 2014 - PRLog -- A new publication by Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com, “Global Online Gaming Market 2014”, reports that trends show that gamers are moving away from consoles and pre-installed PC games toward online and mobile games.

The online gaming marketis forecasted to grow by a high one-digit percentage point annually in the years leading up to 2017. By then, online gaming spending is expected to almost reach the level of console spending.  At the same time, mobile games are predicted to be the fastest growing segment of the video games market. Game-playing on mobile devices has already become a major activity of Internet users worldwide, slightly ahead of online gaming. Also social gaming is a fast growing industry, taking up an increasing share of the total video gaming market. Both segments are forecasted to outpace the total online gaming market in terms of growth, increasing by a small double-digit percentage point annually.

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