Global 3D Game Engine Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global 3D Game Engine Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

A 3D game engine is a software framework designed for the creation and development of video games. Developers use them to create games for consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global 3D Game Engine market finds that the global 3D Game Engine market reached a value of USD 2591.13 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 6027.92 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 15.11% during the forecast period.

AI intelligence

In the future, AI learning may be strongly involved in the game engine. The use of machine learning to improve graphics rendering has been studied at present, and some use AI to drive animation. In the next ten years, the wind of machine learning will blow to more modules in game engines, and it will be far more popular than it is now. During the whole running process of the game, AI keeps collecting playing data to allocate graphics rendering parameters. The skeleton animation in the game is driven by adaptive AI. Even the text dialogue of the game may be generated by AI. Of course, these different AI are probably supported by different AI providers running on the cloud.

Defects of 3D Game Engine

3D game engine is mainly used for running 3D content, and its core is to provide real-time and high-fidelity rendering capability. Game engine integrates rendering engine, physics engine, sound engine and graphics engine. However, due to its own limitations and barriers of different file formats, different software can not communicate with each other to form an information island, which hinders the process of 3D content creation. At the same time, the traditional local client deployment mode makes cloud collaboration impossible, and the modification requires repeated import and export of data, which is extremely inefficient.

Region Overview:

In 2022, the share of the 3D Game Engine market in Asia-Pacific stood at 42.89%.

Company Overview

Epic Games is one of the major players operating in the 3D Game Engine market, holding a share of 39.02% in 2022.

Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.

Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies made its name as the world leading game engine, helping artists and developers in the gaming world render 3D worlds in real time. In 2018, Unity expanded its purview, bringing its technology to new industries such as automotive, film, and architecture, engineering, and construction.

Segmentation Overview:

As for product types, the On-Premise segment held the largest market share in 2022.

Application Overview:

The market largest segment by application is the segment Computer Games, with a market share of 51.89% in 2022.

Key Companies in the global 3D Game Engine market covered in Chapter 3:

Valve
Chukong Tech
Epic Games
Silicon Studio
Idea Fabrik
The Game Creators
Unity Technologies
Leadwerks Software
Crytek

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the 3D Game Engine market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

On-Cloud
On-Premise

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the 3D Game Engine market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Computer Games
Mobile Games
Other Games

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)