Online gaming holds a great future in India ushering on variety of factors attributed to the economical and demographicaal changes occurred in recent times. The brighter side of online gaming upbeat in India is accounted on the following aspects on Indian economy and population.
* The youngest population of the world having smart phone in their hands is great opportunity for Indian gaming Industry to grow in great propensity.
* The free offered games with in-app purchases have great future for them to grow and at the same time improve economies of gaming companies.
* The merger and acquisitions to take place in order to better use mobile and internet technology for the benefit of online gamers.
* The future of emerging technologies is very bright in India, hence, the online gaming as well.
* e-Sports will make the online gaming even more interactive in India.
* Even the different business sectors are too converting the gaming technology into across various business functions and sectors.
* Gaming Industry to be developed according to the taste of Indian people and masses.
The age composition of the online gamers is to be swiftly change in coming times in India as the median age of gamers in India will be somewhere in the age group of 25-40 years. They will be around of 42 percent of all gamers in India in coming times. This massive population of around 30 million online gamer would be constituted of age group having massive access internet and an inclination towards playing game online.
And there is already a massively penetrated mass of younger population is already out there to enjoy a moderate and decent growth of online gaming Industry in India.
What is more wondering about the online gaming trend of future is about female players to be around 33 percent of all gamers in India. The players below the 40 years, however, would have a better capacity to pay for playing games online
As for the category of popular games, there is a great propensity to that strategy and sports would become more popular game in India, comparison, to the others online games. Puzzle, action, adventure and arcade games are going to be the top four gaming categories. However, the most popular gaming category of tomorrow is happening to be:-
* PUZZLE
*ACTION
*ADVENTURE
*ARCADE
*STRATEGY
*SPORTS
As the money too will involved to a greater extent in gaming in coming times, there will be widespread categories of online gamers that would pay or will not pay. Some players will not pay money at all, others will pay money to INR 200, and there would also be category of online game players that will be able to pay till 500 and more that INR 500.
As a developing nation, the Indian gaming Industry based similar to gaming country china is too much price sensitive. The online gamer in India is freemium player and always seeks for the better opportunity to play the games for free. A player in the online gaming market like China pays for reaching to the advanced levels of gaming, buying virtual projects and instant purchase of life in the game.
They also pay for purchasing luck draw like schemes, where, they prefer for returning reward for buying the virtual products. In the multiplayer games to a player becomes ready to pay easily for in-app purchases. It has been witnessed that there is much better chances of generating in app purchase revenue from the highly engaging games like puzzle, action and strategy. Therefore, game developers can rise the costing of the game by enhancing the factors like:-
* Developing the games that are actively has to be socially sharable.
* Getting the multiplayer games to be more active and highly competitive.
* Incorporating methods like Gacha to enhance the interest level in the game.
* Active customization of the game introduced.
As the new generation of India is mostly technology savvy, the integration of payment system with the games is necessary for its complete development cycle of new gamers. Payment solutions like e-wallets and pre-paid cards are too extensively popular in the top most game playing countries and are even holds the payment system of online gaming as well too in India.
These payment solutions can be used by the online game developers in India enabling the use of gift card schemes while easing the payment process for the gamers. There are many other factors that attributes to the success of online gaming in India.
* The role of telecom service providers is of the optimum level in the growth of gaming incoming times. They are investing heavily in reach of data speeds. The mobile data traffic is also getting reduced day- by- day. There is more focus on data as a revenue stream. Agreement could be signed between app distribution platforms.
* Next distributor and payment service providers in coming times will reduce the pricing on the app distribution with the addition of features like as Gift Cards and others.
* Hardware platforms like highly configured mobile phone in the price range of INR 3000 and preinstalled games will be available easily and would be a trend of tomorrow.
* There will be professional gamer channels on the video portals and the e-gaming soon will be transported to a fast growing video universe. There will be a growing numbers of development companies having the global skill and experience.
Thus, India has been to have more than 470 million smart phone and 735 million internet users by 2021, a massive boom to Indian online gaming industry.
