Is game industry still worth investing?
The sales performance of the game industry under the epidemic is strong, but this year it seems to be unable to withstand the impact of the global economic recession. Some data companies estimate that the revenue of the global game market will decrease by 1.2% to 188 billion US dollars (about 1.47 trillion Hong Kong dollars) per year in 2022.
Research by Ampere Analysis, a market data company, shows that the sales of games have been increasing since 2015, with a more direct surge of 26% between 2019 and 2021, reaching a record 191 billion US dollars (about 1.49 trillion ports). Yuan), because of the epidemic, more people stayed at home to kill time with games. However, various adverse factors have emerged this year. It is expected that the global game market revenue will decrease by 1.2% to 188 billion US dollars (about 1.47 trillion Hong Kong dollars) in 2022.
Take Microsoft (Microsoft) and Sony (Sony) as examples. This year, they launched the Xbox Series series hosts and PS5 respectively, but later, due to logistics interruptions and parts shortages affected actual sales, and market revenue began to decline from then on; coupled with this year's Russian-Uk War The outlook for the game industry has further deteriorated, exacerbated the supply chain and inflation problems.
Piers Harding-Rolls, research director of Ampere, said that rising inflation reduces consumption desire. Coupled with many other factors, the brilliant performance of the game industry in the past two years will regain part of the dividend in 2022.
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