Investment in the Turkish gaming industry increased by 60 percent in 2022

Investments made in the gaming industry in Turkey increased by approximately 60% in 2022 compared to the previous year, reaching $424.7 million.

According to the Turkish Gaming Industry Report 2022 published by Gaming in Turkey, a total of $264.8 million was invested in 52 gaming companies in 2021, while an investment of $424.7 million was made in 2022, with a increase of about 60 percent.

Investments in 2022 were made in 23 gaming companies residing in Turkey.

Turkey E-Sports and Gaming Agency founder Ozan Aydemir, in his statement on Turkey Gaming Industry Report 2022, stated that there is a total revenue of $176 billion in 2021 in the global gaming industry. game, and in 2022 there are many problems, especially the problems in world trade He said that the development also affected the game world.

Pointing out that the market is around $185 billion in 2022, according to the Newzoo report, Aydemir said: “The main factor that shaped the gaming industry was ‘mobile’ again. More than $92 billion of the total global revenue was generated from mobile devices in 2022. While the total turnover of PC games exceeds $40 billion, consoles have a volume of $52 billion. On the other hand, the number of players reached 2.950 million. In the field of esports, which generated billions of dollars in revenue, the number of followers reached 549 million. he said.

INVESTMENTS CONTINUE IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY

Noting that the impact of mobile gaming will continue both globally and in Turkey, Ozan Aydemir said: “Half of global revenue comes from mobile devices. This also applies to Türkiye. The number of smartphone users in Turkey was around 64 million in 2022. Almost 42 million of this number play mobile games,” he said.

Noting that investments in the gaming industry continue in 2022, both in Turkey and globally, Aydemir said:

“A total of $424.7 million was invested in 23 gaming companies in 2022 in Turkey. In 2022, Istanbul became the second city with the most gaming offers in Europe, after London. It ranked fifth globally. The gaming industry is an industry that is open to innovation. Mobile games will continue to progress at the same rate. As competition on mobile devices increases, the quality of games also increases. The development of mobile technology also helps a lot.

Especially for young people, the video game industry has become one of the sectors in which they most want to work. As with the industry, there is a lot of interest in game design and development education. The universities have come to fill their quotas easily in their training in this field. Many of our universities have undergraduate and graduate programs in game design and gaming incubation and entrepreneurship centers.”

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAYERS IN Türkiye REACHES 44 MILLION

Aydemir continued his words as follows:

“The total number of players in Turkey, which was 42 million last year, has reached 44 million. 52 percent of the players in Turkey are men and 48 percent are women. 27 percent of age 18-24, 38 percent of age 25-34, 30 percent of age 35-44, 4 percent of age 45-54, 1 percent of age from 55-64 play games.

While puzzle, trivia and word games are the favorite game genre of mobile gamers in Turkey with 54 percent, the same as the previous year, card games are second with 52 percent and action-adventure games rank third with 46 percent. percent. (AA)