This 300-page White Paper is the essential and definitive resource for the games industry - the fastest-growing market in all of entertainment.  IDG offers in-depth coverage of Console, PC, and Mobile gaming across the globe - each chapter explores a key games market spanning North America, Western Europe and Asia, and includes opportunity markets like Southeast Asia, Latin America, India, Australia, Russia, Poland, Turkey, and the Middle East.  This data set also includes our perspective on key themes such as the increasing share growth of gaming, live streaming and esports, gaming as social media 3.0, and the impact of cross-platform play.  This White Paper will be a critical driver for all companies exploring the gaming market - publishers, developers, platform holders, digital distribution players, technology companies, media and entertainment companies, telco operators, and investors - in order to make the best decisions in this fast-growing space.

• A look back at performance and local trends across all gaming segments for each of the Top 20 gaming markets

• Platform-level dashboards for Mobile, PC, and Console including top titles and top publishers for each of the profiled markets

• IDG addresses central themes being discussed in gaming including new emerging genres, the impact of COVID-19 on the gaming industry, and next-gen console predictions, among others 

• IDG's 5-year granular outlook for Console, Mobile, and PC gaming for each of the 20 markets included in this report, across all platforms and revenue streams

Released: April 13, 2020