Massive Multiplayer Online Games escalate the fast-growing SEA gamer population
SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 3, 2012 –Today Niko Partners, the Leader in Asian Video Game Market Intelligence, released the accessibility of its 2012 Southeast Asian Online Game Market Regional Report – that details the lively area market counting Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It mentions that these countries will have a yearly increase rate of 17.4% in the years from 2011-2016.
Niko provides for every country a record of the principal online game operators and games, imperative civilizing nuances, the country’s income, key metrics and our examination and foretell. The details of Southeast Asian Online Game Market consist of a study of surveys of more than 13,000 gamers crossways six countries, revealing gaming manners and their trends.
“A big surprise to us is that social games have been losing momentum in all Southeast Asian countries this year except for Indonesia,” said Lisa Cosmas Hanson, managing partner of Niko Partners. “We had anticipated stronger growth for social games but in fact, gamers in Southeast Asia prefer free-to-play client-based MMO games as well as casual games.”
Major notes from the report include:
- By 2016, there will be 117 million gamers throughout these six Asian emerging markets, generating more than $1 billion in revenue.Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are closely connected gaming markets while Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are more divergent. The report presents the similarities and differences among the countries.Niko forecasts that the Philippines will have the fastest growth in revenue and Indonesia will have the fastest growth in online gamers in our 5-year forecast period.
The entire 74-page Southeast Asian Online Game Market report, including its 100 data exhibits, is available now at Niko Partner’s web site at: http://www.nikopartners.com/researchstore or by contacting by email at sales@nikopartners.com, The price point for purchasing the report is $5,500.
