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Global Online Gaming Market 2015LONDON, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital gaming revenues already account for a double-digit share of the gaming revenues worldwide and are forecasted to see their share rise further. Generally, as video game software sales growth slows or declines, mobile and online play are pushing digital game sales higher. Among the important trends worldwide are the proliferation of the free-to-play model, and the phenomenon of video streaming of games and eSports grows in popularity. Meanwhile, in North America a common trend in both Canada and the USA is declining revenue of pay-to-play multiplayer games, while the free-to-play model is on the rise. In the USA, digital gaming revenues topped physical game sales for the first time two years ago and have retained that leadership. In recent developments in Europe, mobile phones topped stationery PCs as the device most used for gaming in Germany in 2014. In the UK, the pace of growth of online gaming revenues slowed, while in France offline games spending was still higher than online and mobile, but already a double digit-share of gamers played exclusively online. Apart from mobile, a significant growth driver of online gaming in Russia is social gaming, with social networks such as Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte deriving substantial revenues from games. In Latin America, the largest market by far was Brazil, while throughout the region mobile and social were the growth segments in 2014. In the Middle East, countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman saw double-digit shares of Internet users playing online, while in South Africa mobile gaming already by far surpasses PC gaming revenues. Download the full report: https://www.reportbuyer.com/product/2048304/ About Reportbuyer Reportbuyer is a leading industry intelligence solution that provides all market research reports from top publishers http://www.reportbuyer.com For more information: Sarah Smith Research Advisor at Reportbuyer.com Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 208 816 85 48 Website: www.reportbuyer.com To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-online-gaming-market-2015-300089795.html SOURCE ReportBuyer |