GDC in 2015.
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Global games market forecast to hit $100B by 2019

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The global game market is expected to reach $100 billion by 2019, according to a new estimate by the Open Gaming Alliance, a nonprofit trade group focused on gaming.

The group released the data at an event at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) today in San Francisco. DFC Intelligence, a separate research company that did the analysis, expects that the PC game business will become the single largest part of the industry at $37 billion by 2019, up 35 percent from $28 billion in 2015.

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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.