Category: Video Games
Video Games market research reports by IDC
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U.S. AR/VR Game Development Trends from GDC 2023: Meta Sets the Table for Quest 3 and Niantic's Lightship Shines
U.S. AR/VR Game Development Trends from GDC 2023: Meta Sets the Table for Quest 3 and Niantic's Lightship Shines This IDC Market Note assesses VR and AR news, trends, and best practices that emerged from the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC), which took place in San Francisco in late March."Met ... Read More
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Worldwide Mobile In-App and In-Game Advertising Forecast, 2023–2027: ATT Keeps Rocking the Boat as Privacy Sandbox Looms
Worldwide Mobile In-App and In-Game Advertising Forecast, 2023–2027: ATT Keeps Rocking the Boat as Privacy Sandbox Looms This IDC study captures revenue derived from in-app and in-game mobile advertising as well as direct spending by users on mobile games and nongame mobile apps. Mobile advertising ... Read More
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Worldwide Mobile and Handheld Gaming Forecast, 2023–2027: Mobile Gaming Adjusts to Its First-Ever Spending Drop
Worldwide Mobile and Handheld Gaming Forecast, 2023–2027: Mobile Gaming Adjusts to Its First-Ever Spending Drop This IDC study sizes and assesses the mobile and handheld console gaming marketplace worldwide through 2027. The forecast includes a four-region breakout: North America, Western Europe, As ... Read More
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Inside the Video Game Industry's $193 Billion Consumer Experience Machine: A Primer on What Nongame Companies Can Learn
Inside the Video Game Industry's $193 Billion Consumer Experience Machine: A Primer on What Nongame Companies Can Learn This IDC Perspective is a primer that describes where and how IDC's Future of Consumer Experience (FoCX) practice intersects with today's live multiplayer gaming services market. T ... Read More
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NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development
NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development This IDC Market Note covers NVIDIA's recent plans to launch Omniverse Cloud services for building and operating industrial metaverse applications. NVIDIA will provide developers and enterprise tea ... Read More
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Telcos in the Metaverse Era
Telcos in the Metaverse Era This IDC Market Perspective explores the many definitions of the metaverse with a deep dive on how the telco industry engages with the metaverse. The report also introduces the IDC Metaverse Value Chain Framework. From this, it analyzes the different activities and initia ... Read More
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Computational Challenges in Metaverse Are Unlikely to Go Away: What Is Needed for Metaverse to Succeed?
Computational Challenges in Metaverse Are Unlikely to Go Away: What Is Needed for Metaverse to Succeed? This IDC Market Note looks at the metaverse from a bird's-eye view and examines the critical parts it needs to evolve. IDC defines the metaverse as a highly immersive future environment that blen ... Read More
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Web 3.0 and Its Role in the Metaverse and How to Prepare the Infrastructure for What Is Coming
Web 3.0 and Its Role in the Metaverse and How to Prepare the Infrastructure for What Is Coming This IDC Market Note looks at the differences between Web3 and the metaverse and talks about what IT infrastructure vendors should be ready for when the metaverse finally arrives. IDC defines Web3 as a co ... Read More
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Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast Update, 2022–2026: Subscriptions Make Headway in a Down Year
Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast Update, 2022–2026: Subscriptions Make Headway in a Down Year This IDC study forecasts home video game console hardware, software, and service use and spending through 2026 in four regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific, and a combined rest of ... Read More
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Enabling Remote Collaboration Through AR/VR and Metaverse in Europe
Enabling Remote Collaboration Through AR/VR and Metaverse in Europe This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the state of XR-enabled collaboration in Europe, providing advice to IT vendors in the remote collaboration and workforce transformation space. The study delves into key factors pushing investmen ... Read More
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The Top 5 Things to Know About Advertising in the Metaverse
The Top 5 Things to Know About Advertising in the Metaverse This IDC Perspective explores how advertising might look like in Meta Platforms' proposed metaverse, what its commercial volume could be, what gating factors might affect consumer adoption, and how advertisers could go about gathering exper ... Read More
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Worldwide Cloud-Streamed Gaming Forecast, 2022-2026: Mobile Gathers Momentum
Worldwide Cloud-Streamed Gaming Forecast, 2022-2026: Mobile Gathers Momentum This IDC study examines the cloud-streamed gaming market from 2019 through 2026. It considers monthly users, hours of use, and revenue globally and in four geographic regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (in ... Read More
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The Future of Experiences in the Metaverse
The Future of Experiences in the Metaverse This IDC Perspective discusses how the advent of Web3 technologies and other metaverse components will have an impact on the future of customer experiences. It highlights the key factors that make it relevant to consider these technologies now, which of the ... Read More
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Worldwide Enterprise Community Software Applications Market Shares, 2021: The First-Party Data and Metaverse Gateway
Worldwide Enterprise Community Software Applications Market Shares, 2021: The First-Party Data and Metaverse Gateway This IDC study examines the vendor revenue performance in the enterprise community software applications market for 2021.Enterprise community software applications are a fast-growing ... Read More
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Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2022–2026: Subscriptions and CSG Make Headway
Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Forecast, 2022–2026: Subscriptions and CSG Make Headway This IDC study forecasts digital PC gaming through 2026 in four regions: North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and a combined the rest of the world region. The digital PC gaming marke ... Read More
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Blockchain, NFTs, Crypto, and Gaming: Much Ado About Something TBD
Blockchain, NFTs, Crypto, and Gaming: Much Ado About Something TBD This IDC Market Perspective has three main parts: a primer on consumer-facing blockchain, NFTs, and crypto for those who may be unfamiliar with this technology; five gaming-specific use cases that were featured or touched on at GDC 2 ... Read More
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The E3 That Wasn't, 2022: New Games Incoming as the Industry Braces for Potential Recession
The E3 That Wasn't, 2022: New Games Incoming as the Industry Braces for Potential Recession This IDC Market Note reviews new PC, console, and VR game release news that was broken in June and assesses its likely impact, as well as inflationary and recessionary concerns, through 2023. "The 4Q22 exclus ... Read More
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Siemens and NVIDIA Partnership to Develop and Scale the Industrial Metaverse
Siemens and NVIDIA Partnership to Develop and Scale the Industrial Metaverse This IDC Market Note examines the key elements and implications of the partnership between Siemens and NVIDIA that aims to enable the industrial metaverse and increase the use of AI-driven digital twin technology across the ... Read More
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The Metaverse Tech Ecosystem: How and When Human Augmentation Technologies will Support the Metaverse
The Metaverse Tech Ecosystem: How and When Human Augmentation Technologies will Support the Metaverse This IDC Perspective discusses the role of human augmentation techs (including AR/VR, affective computing, smart peripherals, and brain-computer interfaces) as part of the metaverse technology ecosy ... Read More
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Metaverse Implications for Financial Services
Metaverse Implications for Financial Services This IDC Perspective introduces the metaverse and provides insights into its development, major players working toward the creation of the metaverse, and its implications for the financial services industry."Although the metaverse may still be a somewhat ... Read More
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China Gaming Market Forecast, 2021–2026
China Gaming Market Forecast, 2021–2026 As consumers have adjusted to the pandemic lifestyle, the demand for gaming has also become normalized in 2021. Mobile and PC gaming remain as the dominant segments in the China market, whereas both console and cloud-streamed gaming are gaining momentum in the ... Read More
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Upskilling/Reskilling in the Metaverse — A Distant Reality?
Upskilling/Reskilling in the Metaverse — A Distant Reality? This IDC Market Note explores the current development and prospects on the use of the metaverse as a tool for learning and development (L&D) for IT skills. Although current hype around Web 3.0 and the metaverse cannot be overlooked and ... Read More
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Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast, 2022–2026
Worldwide Home Video Game Console Forecast, 2022–2026 This IDC study estimates home video game console hardware, software, and related service use and spending through 2026. 7th-, 8th-, 9th-, and 10th-gen consoles are considered in grouped categories. Packaged game discs/cards are broken out from di ... Read More
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Worldwide CDN Provider Market Shares, 2021: Competition Remains Fierce and Drives Transformation
Worldwide CDN Provider Market Shares, 2021: Competition Remains Fierce and Drives Transformation This IDC Market Share report provides the 2021 shares of the worldwide commercial CDN vendors worldwide. The document covers market shares of key CDN providers and an "others" category. It includes infor ... Read More
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Microsoft Azure Platforms Key to Support New Ventures in 365 Business Applications, Metaverse, Cloud Gaming, and More
Microsoft Azure Platforms Key to Support New Ventures in 365 Business Applications, Metaverse, Cloud Gaming, and More This IDC Market Note highlights Microsoft's announcement of new products and services for wave 1 (April to September 2022) by taking into context the impact it will have on the Azure ... Read More