India is considered a market for gaming that is yet to be tapped to its full potential. Mobile gaming is on the rise, with several gaming firms coming up, accrued to the lockdown and the COVID pandemic. However, according to a new survey by HP, PC gaming will lead and replace mobile gaming from its top spot.
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PC gaming has been popular worldwide and had a pretty hard grip in India until cheap data and smartphones swamped the Indian market. The affordability and mobility was the factor that trumped mobile gaming over PC gaming. Apparently, the decrease in prices of electronics and PC might give way for a dominant PC Gaming industry in India.
HP India Gaming Landscape Report 2021 on PC Gaming
According to the survey, 89 per cent of the Indian users of action-adventure mobile and/or PC games aged 15-40 agreed that PCs offered a better experience. The survey had the majority of questions reflecting that mobile gamers would much rather be playing on a PC given a choice.
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Whereas, a mere 37 per cent of total users in the survey acknowledge themselves moving from mobile to PC. Even, the Millennial and GenZ crowd were heavily in favour of moving to PC gaming. However, PCs aren’t still affordable in India, mobile phones have come to the rescue. It also offers a stable performance as compared to a decent PC in the same price range.
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India might see an uptick in PC gaming later in future, but currently, it doesn’t see mobile gamers tapering down. What needs to be looked at is the root cause of degrading its’ popularity, the price of PCs. Unless, of course, companies like HP put out some affordable systems for gaming. With newer gaming accessories and development in the Gaming community like the VR games, the cost of an average decent PC doesn’t seem to be easing down anytime soon.
Sushmita Choubey
Marketer to the core, a writer from the soul. Engineer and an MBA turned budding tech writer - dabbling her hands in all genres of writing from tech to fiction. If not writing, you will always find me reading anything and everything. Otherwise, you will find me learning new languages.