Neil Young, CEO of N3twork, at Casual Connect USA.
Categories

N3twork’s Neil Young believes $10 billion mobile game is inevitable

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 3 min

Neil Young is one of the big thinkers in mobile games, and he came up with a big thought in a talk at today’s Casual Connect USA event: the $10 billion mobile game is inevitable.

He said this in spite of the fact that many investors have abandoned mobile games and moved into investing in augmented reality and virtual reality technology. While mobile games are a $36 billion market today (according to market researcher Newzoo), AR and VR are expected to be a $120 billion market by 2020, according to Digi-Capital.

Unlock premium content and VIP community perks with GB M A X! Join now to enjoy our free and premium perks. 

Join now →

Sign in to your account.

Written by

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.