Ten markets in Asia will hit a collective 1 billion gamers by 2025.
Ten markets in Asia will hit a collective 1 billion gamers by 2025.
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Asia’s gamers will exceed a billion by 2026 | Niko Partners

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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By 2026, ten markets in Asia will have more than billion gamers, according to a new report by market researcher Niko Partners.

India’s video games market has the highest projected five-year growth rate at 21%, according to the 2022 Asia-10 Games Market report.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.