Category: Video Games
Video Games market research reports by IDC
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AWE USA 2024: All Spatial, Metaverse, Web3, dAGI, AI, and AR Fusion Were Among the Highlights of the Event
AWE USA 2024: All Spatial, Metaverse, Web3, dAGI, AI, and AR Fusion Were Among the Highlights of the Event This IDC Market Perspective discusses the Augmented World Expo (AWE USA 2024) that highlighted the latest advancements in XR technologies, emphasizing their practical benefits across various i ... Read More
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Worldwide Cloud-Streamed Gaming Forecast, 2024–2028: Western and Eastern Growth Strategies Diverge
Worldwide Cloud-Streamed Gaming Forecast, 2024–2028: Western and Eastern Growth Strategies Diverge This IDC study examines the cloud-streamed gaming market from 2024 to 2028. It considers users (MAUs), hours of use (in billions), and revenue ($M) worldwide in four geographic regions: North America, ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2024–2028: Paid Game and DLC Revenue Set for Record Highs
Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2024–2028: Paid Game and DLC Revenue Set for Record Highs This IDC study forecasts digital PC gaming through 2028 worldwide and in four geographic regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and a combined rest of world (ROW). ... Read More
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Worldwide CDN Provider Market Shares, 2023: Vendors Strengthen Their Differentiation Play at the Edge
Worldwide CDN Provider Market Shares, 2023: Vendors Strengthen Their Differentiation Play at the Edge This IDC Market Share report provides the 2023 shares of worldwide commercial CDN vendors. The document covers the market shares of key CDN providers and an "others" category. It includes informatio ... Read More
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eSports Market Update: Co-Streaming to the Rescue
eSports Market Update: Co-Streaming to the Rescue This IDC Market Note assesses the impact that co-streaming, which is also known as community casting, has had on popular esports tournaments in the past year. It also considers what this trend portends for core esports market suppliers in 2024."Co-st ... Read More
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Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast, 2024–2028: Game Spending per Console Trends Lower
Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast, 2024–2028: Game Spending per Console Trends Lower This IDC study forecasts home video game console hardware, software, and service use and spending through 2028. Eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-generation consoles are considered in grouped categories. Packaged ... Read More
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Worldwide Home Video Game Console Market Shares, 2023: PlayStation 5 Outperformed
Worldwide Home Video Game Console Market Shares, 2023: PlayStation 5 Outperformed This IDC study offers an overview of the competitive dynamics in the home video game console market through 2023 from a hardware bundle, packaged game, and digital game and subscription service spending standpoint. It ... Read More
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GDC 2024 Postmortem: Engine Updates, Creator Economy Upleveling, and Mounting Trust and Safety Challenges
GDC 2024 Postmortem: Engine Updates, Creator Economy Upleveling, and Mounting Trust and Safety Challenges This IDC Market Note assesses three prominent themes that emerged at last month's Game Developers Conference (GDC): the distinctive updates unveiled by the leading commercial game engine supplie ... Read More
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Meta Quest 3's Market Reception: Not Selling as well as Quest 2 But Its VR Pass-Through Is Second Only to Apple Vision Pro
Meta Quest 3's Market Reception: Not Selling as well as Quest 2 But Its VR Pass-Through Is Second Only to Apple Vision Pro This IDC Market Perspective assesses the performance of Meta's Quest 3 VR headset in 4Q23 and puts it in the context of the broader VR and AR market by highlighting its hardware ... Read More
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Worldwide Mobile and Handheld Gaming Forecast, 2024–2028: Spending Rebound Expected Next Year
Worldwide Mobile and Handheld Gaming Forecast, 2024–2028: Spending Rebound Expected Next Year This IDC study sizes and assesses the mobile and handheld console gaming marketplace worldwide through 2028. The forecast includes four regional breakouts: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (AP), ... Read More
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Worldwide Mobile In-App and In-Game Advertising Forecast, 2024–2028: Video Ads Rolls On
Worldwide Mobile In-App and In-Game Advertising Forecast, 2024–2028: Video Ads Rolls On This IDC study provides a view into mobile in-app and in-game advertising dynamics through 2028. It assesses related market trends and technological advancements, and it offers advice to technology suppliers. It ... Read More
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Generative AI, the Industrial Metaverse, and Robotics Innovations at Rockwell Automation Fair 2023
Generative AI, the Industrial Metaverse, and Robotics Innovations at Rockwell Automation Fair 2023 This IDC Market Note looks into the announcements made at Automation Fair 2023. The Automation Fair 2023, hosted by Rockwell Automation, highlighted the company's advancements in artificial intelligenc ... Read More
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Best in Future of Work: Finding Talents through the Career Metaverse
Best in Future of Work: Finding Talents through the Career Metaverse This IDC Perspective discusses the nomination details of the Best in Future of Work winner from the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2023 in the Asia/Pacific region with how generative AI (GenAI) can impact organizations moving forward ... Read More
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eSports at the Crossroads: Vendors Adapt to Endure the “eSports Winter”
eSports at the Crossroads: Vendors Adapt to Endure the “eSports Winter” This IDC Market Perspective sizes esports market vendor revenue worldwide through 2023, examines the dynamic between esports’ top tournaments and teams in 2022 and 2023, describes the ways in which esports ecosystem vendors have ... Read More
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Digital Life Series: B2C Entertainment
Digital Life Series: B2C Entertainment This IDC Market Perspective addresses the B2C entertainment market in the European telecom sector, which is a huge business opportunity for telecom operators. This market has been evolving in the past few years, thanks to diverse digital entertainment services ... Read More
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Is Web3 Gaming a Dead End or Evolving into Something Interesting?
Is Web3 Gaming a Dead End or Evolving into Something Interesting? This IDC Market Note sizes and assesses trends in the Web3 gaming space in 2023 and offers insight into how 2024 should develop. The aim is to discern whether there's evidence that vendors in and around the gaming industry should inv ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2023–2027: ARPU Ticks Up as MAUs Flatline and Live Service Games Shine
Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2023–2027: ARPU Ticks Up as MAUs Flatline and Live Service Games Shine This IDC study forecasts digital PC gaming through 2027 worldwide and in four regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and a combined rest of world (ROW ... Read More
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IDC Perspective: How Live Service Games Raise CSAT and Drive Additional Revenue by Pushing the Customer Experience Envelope
IDC Perspective: How Live Service Games Raise CSAT and Drive Additional Revenue by Pushing the Customer Experience Envelope This IDC Perspective examines three basic types of video games: paid games, classic free-to-play (F2P) games, and live service games. The performance of these game types is con ... Read More
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Scan of TM Forum Catalysts Shows Focus on APIs, Ecosystems, and (Yes) Metaverse
Scan of TM Forum Catalysts Shows Focus on APIs, Ecosystems, and (Yes) Metaverse This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of Catalyst projects to be showcased at the TM Forum's Digital Transformation World (DTW) event in Copenhagen in September 2023. Catalyst projects are an effective baromet ... Read More
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Metaverse and Web3 Need Effective Ecosystems to Advance
Metaverse and Web3 Need Effective Ecosystems to Advance This IDC Market Perspective describes the current metaverse and Web3 ecosystem and talks about technologies and companies representing different layers of the ecosystem. It also investigates trends that shape the metaverse and Web3 infrastructu ... Read More
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Enterprise and Industrial Metaverse — Beginning to Take Shape and Enable Business and Operational Transformation
Enterprise and Industrial Metaverse — Beginning to Take Shape and Enable Business and Operational Transformation This IDC Market Perspective helps digital engineering and OT (DEOT) service providers explore different types of metaverse services, their ecosystem, relevant use cases across industries, ... Read More
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Creator Economy Games Meet the Future of CX: What Happens When "Superfans" Become Paid Cocreators?
Creator Economy Games Meet the Future of CX: What Happens When "Superfans" Become Paid Cocreators? This IDC Perspective examines three video games that appear to have especially robust creator economies in 2023: Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite. More specially, it contrasts how the creator economies ... Read More
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Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast, 2023–2027: 10th-Gen Systems Begin Taking Shape
Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast, 2023–2027: 10th-Gen Systems Begin Taking Shape This IDC study forecasts home video game console hardware, software, and services market through 2027 worldwide. 7th-, 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-gen consoles are considered in grouped categories. Packaged game disc ... Read More
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Worldwide Networked Video Entertainment Device Forecast, 2023–2027
Worldwide Networked Video Entertainment Device Forecast, 2023–2027 This IDC study presents the forecast for the worldwide networked video entertainment device market for the 2023–2027 period."Networked video entertainment devices have proliferated rapidly in the past few years, resulting in a satur ... Read More
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Worldwide Home Video Game Console Market Shares, 2022: Xbox Shined Digitally While Nintendo Switch Slid
Worldwide Home Video Game Console Market Shares, 2022: Xbox Shined Digitally While Nintendo Switch Slid This IDC study assesses and contrasts the major home video game console platforms from several market share angles in the 2013–2022 period, with an emphasis on the 2021-2022 dynamic. Global market ... Read More