Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot: Gaming will reach $300B by 2030 and 5B people by 2028

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 10, 2022
Updated June 19, 2025
4 min

Yves Guillemot has a big ambition for gaming, and he talked update his latest vision and strategy at the Ubisoft’s annual event this week.

Guillemot predicted the game industry will hit $300 billion in revenues by 2030 (compared to close to $200 billion this year) and 530,000 “talents,” or game industry professionals. He expects gaming to hit an audience of five billion people by 2028, thanks in no small part to the “increasing democratization of games” on mobile devices and other platforms.

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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.