Investments in the Turkish game market for last year grew by almost 60 percent compared to 2021 – up to $ 424.7 million.
According to the “Report of the Turkish Industry for the 2022nd year”, prepared by the Gaming In Turkey resource, in 2021 the total investment in 52 gaming companies amounted to $ 264.8 million, while last year it was already invested 424, $ 7 million in the activities of 23 game company operating in the Turkish market.
The founder of Gaming in Turkey, Ozan Aydemir, told Anadolu that in 2021 the total income from the gambling sector in the world amounted to 176 million
According to him, in 2022 many events, especially the problems in world trade, also affected the sectors of the Games.
According to the Newzoo report, the market volume in 2022 amounted to $ 185 billion.
The main factor that formed the game industry became mobile games again.
In 2022, the sale of mobile games amounted to more than 92 billion dollars from total income.
The total income from the PC games amounted to more than $ 40 billion, and the volume of the sale of game consoles is $ 52 billion.
At the same time, the number of gamers reached 2.95 billion people. In the field of e -sports, bringing billions of dollars, the number of subscribers reached 549 million people.
Ozan Aydemir is convinced that mobile games will continue to have the main influence on the formation of income in the game sector both in Turkey and in the world.
“half of the world’s income in the world falls on mobile games. This also applies to Turkey. In 2022, the number of smartphones in Turkey was about 64 million people. Almost 42 million of them play mobile games,” he said .
Aidemir noted that in 2022 investments in the game sector continued in Turkey and in the world.
“In 2022, Istanbul became the second city after London in Europe with the largest number of gaming transactions. The metropolis took 5th place in the world. The game industry is open for innovation. Mobile games will develop at the same pace. As competitions grow on mobile mobile The quality of games is growing devices. The development of mobile technologies also helps a lot. The total number of players in Turkey reached 44 million, ”he said.