Summary

This report sets out to answer the following questions:

  • What are the dynamics affecting the cloud gaming market?
  • What strategies are players adopting to compete on this market?
  • What main use cases can be observed in cloud gaming?
  • How can 5G technology impact the cloud gaming market?
  • What size is the cloud gaming market in terms of volume and value?

Table of contents

1. Executive Summary

2. Cloud Gaming Market
2.1. Market dynamics
2.2. Cloud Gaming ecosystem and players

3. 5G will enhance gaming user experience
3.1. 5G is a key technologic enabler for Cloud Gaming
3.2 5G will drive partnerships between telcos, cloud providers and cloud gaming providers
3.3 5G will grow the addressable market for cloud gaming
3.4 XR as additional feature for cloud gaming…
3.5 … and 5G will support XR development

4. Opportunities and threats for players in the ecosystem
4.1. Game publishers
4.2. Tech giants
4.3. Cloud gaming providers
4.4. Telecom operators

5. Cloud Gaming market forecasts
5.1 Volume and breakdown of subscribers to cloud gaming service
5.2. Cloud gaming services market

6. Appendix
6.1. BtoB Cloud Gaming solutions: Gamestream use case

List of tables and figures

List of tables and figures

2. Cloud gaming markets
• Timeline of gaming consoles evolution in terms of technical innovations
• Gaming devices
• Cloud gaming value chain
• Games on demand platform
• Virtual machine
• BtoB cloud gaming services business model: telco example
• Major cloud gaming providers

3. 5G will enhance gaming user experience
• 5G cloud gaming platform
• World 5G subscriptions (thousands), 5G’s share of mobile subscriptions (%)
• Type of games available in AR and VR
• Difference between AR, VR and MR

4. Opportunities and threats for players in the ecosystem
• Major telco – cloud providers partnerships including gaming use case
• Major telco – cloud gaming providers partnerships

5. Cloud Gaming Market forecasts
• Number of subscribers to cloud gaming services worldwide, 2020-2026 (millions)
• Regional breakdown of subscribers to cloud gaming services worldwide, 2020-2026 (%)
• World cloud gaming market value, 2020-2026 (million euros)
• Breakdown of the world cloud gaming market value, 2020-2026 (%)

Geographic area

World

Players

  • Gamestream
  • Google Stadia
  • NVIDIA GeForce
  • Shadow
  • Sony Playstation Now

Other details

  • Reference: M00015MRA
  • Delivery: on the DigiWorld Interactive platform
  • Languages available: English
  • Tags: 5G, cloud gaming, game publishers, Tech giants, telecom operators

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