Cloud Gaming – Thematic Research

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Cloud Gaming Market Overview

Cloud gaming is the most important theme in the gaming sector. It will fundamentally change the video games industry over the next 10 years. The market is at a very early stage, but competition is intensifying and drawing in tech giants and telcos. Cloud gaming has the potential to disrupt how games are distributed, consumed, and monetized.

The cloud gaming thematic intelligence report provides a briefing on the theme with a detailed analysis of market opportunity, and factors driving its development and adoption. The report also presents key technology, macroeconomic, and regulatory trends impacting the theme. Further, the report provides market size and growth forecasts.

Key Trends

The main trends shaping the cloud gaming industry are classified into three categories: technology trends, macroeconomic trends, and regulatory trends.

  • Technology trends: The key technology trends impacting the theme are cloud services, 5G, edge computing, AI, and data consumption.
  • Macroeconomic trends: Some of the key macroeconomic trends explained in the report are COVID-19, the iOS hurdle, risk to publishers, dematerialization, monetization, and sustainability.
  • Regulatory trends: Data privacy and net neutrality are a part of the regulatory trends impacting the cloud gaming industry.

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Cloud Gaming – Industry Analysis

The cloud gaming market generated $1 billion in revenue in 2020.  The market is expected to achieve a CAGR of more than 39% over the forecast period. Tech giants are banking on subscription models to help them become the “Netflix of gaming”.

Cloud Gaming industry analysis also covers:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Timeline

Cloud Gaming Revenue, 2020 to 2030

Cloud Gaming Revenue, 2020 to 2030

Cloud Gaming - Value Chain Analysis

The value chain for cloud gaming can be split into four layers: content, service, connectivity, and device.

Content layer: Content, or games, are at the heart of cloud gaming. Content is key to the success of cloud gaming platforms. Consequently, game developers and publishers will always be both the key enablers and main beneficiaries of the cloud gaming theme.

Cloud Gaming Value Chain

Cloud Gaming Value Chain

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Leading Companies in the Cloud Gaming Theme

Some of the leading companies making their mark within the cloud gaming theme:

  • Alphabet
  • Amazon
  • Apple

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Cloud Gaming Sector Scorecard - Gaming Sector Theme

At GlobalData, we use a scorecard approach to predict tomorrow’s leading companies within each sector. Each sector scorecard has three screens:

  • The thematic screen ranks companies based on overall leadership in the 10 themes that matter most to their industry, generating a leading indicator of future performance.
  • The valuation screen ranks our universe of companies within a sector based on selected valuation metrics.
  • The risk screen ranks companies within a particular sector based on overall investment risk.

Gaming Sector Scorecard – Thematic Screen

Gaming Sector Scorecard – Thematic Screen

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Cloud Gaming Overview

Report Pages 32
Market Revenue (2020) $1 billion
CAGR (2020-2030) >39%
Regions Covered Global
Key Trends Technology Trends, Macroeconomic Trends, and Regulatory Trends
Value Chain Content, Service, Connectivity, and Device
Leading Companies Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple

Scope

  • This report provides an overview of the cloud gaming theme.
  • It identifies the key trends impacting growth of the theme over the next 12 to 24 months, split into three categories: technology trends, macroeconomic trends, and regulatory trends.
  • It includes a comprehensive industry analysis, including forecasts for cloud gaming revenues to 2030.
  • The detailed value chain comprises four layers: a content layer, a service layer, a connectivity layer, and a device layer.

Reasons to Buy

Worth $1bn in 2020, the global cloud gaming market will grow to become a $30bn industry by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% over this 10-year period, according to GlobalData estimates.

By revenue, cloud gaming accounted for less than 1% of the video games industry in 2020, but it has the potential to disrupt how games are distributed, consumed, and monetized. In 10 years, traditional PC and console games will have been replaced by games hosted in the cloud and accessed via thin-client PCs, consoles, or mobiles.

Activision Blizzard
Akamai
Alibaba
Alphabet
Amazon
Apple
Asus
AT&T
Bandai Namco
BBK Electronics
Boyaa
BT Group
Capcom
China Mobile
Colopl
Corsair
Dell
DeNA
Deutsche Telecom
Electronic Arts
Epic Games
F5 Networks
Facebook
Gamevil
Glu Mobile
GungHo Online
HP
Huawei
IBM
IGG
Kingsoft
Konami
KT
Lenovo
Microsoft
NCSoft
NetEase
Netmarble
Nexon
Nintendo
Nvidia
Perfect World
Playtech
Razer
Samsung Electronics
Sea
Sega Sammy
SK Telecom
Sony
Square Enix
Take-Two Interactive
Tencent
Ubisoft
Unity Technologies
Valve Corp
Verizon
Vivendi
Webzen
Xiaomi
Zynga

Table of Contents

Executive summary

Players

Technology briefing

Trends

Industry analysis

Value chain

Companies

Sector scorecard

Glossary

Further reading

Thematic methodology

Frequently asked questions

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