Market Share of Gaming Console Industry
The gaming console market is moderately competitive, with some of the players currently dominating the market. With the cloud infrastructure advancement, the market will be betting on the gaming future against the daunting list of new entrants' cloud offerings, such as Google's stadia platform and Amazon's rumored cloud gaming service. However, the anticipation of the launch of the next-generation consoles by prominent players leveraging their existing cloud streaming platform is expected to drive the gaming console market forward.
- August 2022 - NetEase Acquires Leading French game developer & publisher quantic dream to operate independently, focusing on creating and publishing its video games on all platforms, at the same time leveraging NetEase's significant game development capabilities.
- August 2022 - Logitech G and Tencent Games announced a partnership to bring a cloud gaming handheld to market that will combine Logitech G's expertise in hardware with Tencent Games' software services. The new device will support multiple cloud gaming services so gamers can play AAA games away from their console or PC.
Gaming Console Market Leaders
Sony Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Sega Enterprises Inc.
Valve Corporation
*Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order