Mobile gaming could drive entire video game industry to $100B in revenue by 2017

Mobile gaming is growing so fast that it’s expanding the traditional video game industry far beyond its old borders.

Tim Merel, the managing director of game investment bank Digi-Capital, issued a report today that predicts mobile games could drive the whole game software industry’s revenues to $100 billion by 2017, making it one of the most lucrative sectors for entertainment and software. He said the mobile and online game sectors could grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23.6 percent to $60 billion by 2017.