Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Creating a Backend for Games – @GDC 2019

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GDC is coming up and one session that should be relevant to anyone making a large game that needs the ability scale is on Friday, March 22nd at 1:30 PM in room 2000. Here’s a link to the announcement. Game development veterans from Boss Fight Entertainment, Certain Affinity, and Intel will be answering questions collected online for anyone interested in client/server architecture.

This is an approach to audience participation that takes full advantage of social media where anyone can ask a question here: https://www.leaseweb.com/events/game-developers-conference-sf-2019, or on Twitter @GamesNetworker using the hashtag #GDCBackendAMA.

After the session, Leaseweb has promised to post the responses in a blog post on their site. Maybe we can get someone there to live tweet the session.

 

Global Video Game Software Market to Reach $98 billion by 2020 with a CAGR of over 5% (DFC Intelligence)

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DFC Intelligence predicts 2016 game software sales to reach $79 billion. This is 8% higher than 2015.

  • Video Game Software Sales will be $98 billion in 2020
  • The market is seeing a CAGR of more than 5 percent
  • The PC Game Market in Asia, North America and Europe will grow to $40 billion by 2020
  • The PC Game Market in Asia, North America and Europe was $30 billion in 2015

There are Now 287 Million Active Mobile Gamers in the U.S.

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SuperData released a new report on the US digital games market. Here are the interesting points:

  • There are 287 Million Mobile Active Gamers in the U.S.
  • $1.2 Billion in U.S. digital game sales for December 2014
  • 11% Year over on year growth in December 2014, compared to December 2013
  • 17% Growth in mobile digital revenues
  • 10% Increase in console digital sales
  • 10% Decrease in social game revenues
  • Average spend on PS4 was $11.09, down from $20 in November 2014
  • Average spend on Xbox One was $6.88, down from $21 in November 2014
  • Average spend on Steam was $2.35, down from $8 in November 2014

By 2018 there will be 176 Million Game Consoles Connected to the Internet

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According to Digital TV Research, one quarter of all TVs will be connected by 2018.

  • That’s 759 million TVs connected to the internet around the world by 2018
  • By the end of 2013, there will be 307 million connected TVs globally
  • The market share growth is increasing rapidly from 5.1% (115 million Tvs) to 12.4% in 2013 and 26.8% in 2018 Connected TVs were at a 5.1% share in 2010 — some 115 million TV sets.
  • Games consoles connected to the internet will rise to 176 million by 2018, twice that of 2012
  • Smart TVs will be 34% of the 2018 total (259 million) TVs
  • The global number of connected TV sets using streaming or set-top boxes was 4 million in 2010
  • By 2018, there will be 126 million TVs connecting via streaming or set-top boxes

Launching MMO Games

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I just uploaded a presentation I’ve given in different flavors over the past few years on launching MMO games. Here it is:

Launching MMO Games

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Turbine Estimates the Console MMO Market at $2.3 Billion in 2011

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According to an interview with Eurogamer, Turbine’s revenue estimates for 2011 suggest that the PC MMO market will be worth $2 billion

The company expects the Console MMO market to be relatively untapped in 2011 and estimate it to be worth $2.3 billion in revenue.