Digital Games Revenue will Reach $200 Billion

Digi-Capital forecasts that games industry software and hardware combined revenue could drive well over $200 billion by 2023, and tracked a record $5.7 billion investment in games companies in 2018.

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Digital Games Investment Reached $5.7B in 2018

The Games Report Q1 2019 tracked companies raising $5.7 billion in 2018, which was over twice the previous record investment from 2017. Epic Games’ $1.25 billion was the largest round raised last year, and the largest non-IPO games investment of all time.

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How China will Dominate the Video Games Market

In games deal making there’s Tencent, then there’s everyone else. Tencent led or participated in over $4 of every $10 invested in games companies worldwide in the last 12 months to Q1 2018.

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Market Reality: Why AR will Dominate VR by 2022

AR (mobile AR, smartglasses) could approach 3.5 billion installed base and $85 billion to $90 billion revenue within 5 years. Meanwhile, VR (mobile, standalone, console, PC) might deliver 50 to 60 million installed base and $10 billion to $15 billion.

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Video Games Industry will Reach $230B+ in 5 Years

Video games software and hardware combined could be in the $165 billion to $170 billion range this year (if mobile outperforms again), and reach between $230 billion and $235 billion by 2022 if strong performance continues.

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Games Software and Hardware Revenue Reach $150 Billion

Games software and hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion in revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking around three-quarters and hardware around one-quarter of the total.

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Virtual and Augmented Reality M&A Outlook for 2017

Where the Digi-Capital ‘Augmented and Virtual Reality Report Q1 2017’ deals database tracked $1.5 billion investments in the last 12 months up to Q1 2017, there was only $600 million of M&As in the same period.

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Video Games Market M&A Reached New High in 2016

Last year was a record breaker for games, with Digi-Capital’s Games Report 2017 recording $30.3 billion games deals in 2016. The $28.4 billion of games mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was 77% higher than 2014’s previous record, and $1.9 billion games investment was the second highest ever.

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Video Games Software Revenue to Reach $116 Billion by 2020

Games M&A hit another record this month, topping $25 billion to July 2016 with the $4.4 billion acquisition of Playtika by a Chinese consortium led by Giant. Digi-Capital forecasts total games software revenue growth slowing to 7% CAGR from $91 billion in 2016 to $116 billion by 2020.

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Video Games M&A in 1H 2016 is Up by 1,000 Percent

Games M&A reached a record $18.6 billion in the first half of the year, in a clear sign of late stage market consolidation. After last year’s games market saw deals drop by 81%, the first half of 2016 is up by nearly 1,000% when compared to the rate of deals in 2015.

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