Southeast Asia mobile game revenues to hit $7B by 2019

Southeast Asia’s mobile gaming revenues could exceed $7 billion by 2019, according to market researcher Frost & Sullivan.

The analysis from the company shows that Southeast Asia revenues hit $1 billion in 2014, and it will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 48 percent from 2015 to 2019. That means the region — home to more than 600 million people — will grow much faster than other mature regions in the world.

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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.