Global gaming is expected to hit $116 billion in revenues in 2017.
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Newzoo: Game industry growing faster than expected, up 10.7% to $116 billion 2017

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Game market researcher Newzoo reported that the global game market will hit $116 billion in revenues on, up from 10.7 percent from a year earlier. The latest numbers are up $7.1 billion from Newzoo’s previous estimate.

Mobile gaming revenues for 2017 were revised upward the most, from $46.1 billion to $50.4 billion. From a regional perspective, the adjustment was mainly driven by new 2017 revenue figures for China and Japan. Esports is also coming on strong, with total esports revenues potentially hitting $2.5 billion by 2020, or about $1 billion more than Newzoo previously estimated.

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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.