The gaming accessories market splits neatly into a segment that pays the bills and a segment that gets the press releases. Gamepads and controllers are the first. Chairs are the second. Controllers are projected to hold roughly 32.9% of the accessories market by product share in 2026, the largest single slice. Chairs are forecast to grow faster than anything else in the … [Read more...] about Controllers Carry the Gaming Accessories Market While Chairs Post the Faster Growth
The Video Game Market Passed Film and Music, and the Comparison Flatters Everyone
The line appears in roughly every gaming investment deck written since 2015: the video game market is larger than film and music combined. It is repeated so often that it has stopped being examined, which is a shame, because examining it reveals more about the industry than the claim itself does. The claim is broadly true. It is also constructed from three different kinds of … [Read more...] about The Video Game Market Passed Film and Music, and the Comparison Flatters Everyone
Gaming Software Market Growth Is Concentrated in Games That Already Shipped
The gaming software market is the part of the industry that investors actually mean when they talk about gaming, because it strips out the hardware cycle and leaves the recurring consumer spend. Software-only estimates for 2026 land between about $205 billion and $214 billion. Add hardware and you get closer to $237 billion, which is why two people can quote the same industry … [Read more...] about Gaming Software Market Growth Is Concentrated in Games That Already Shipped
The Gaming Peripheral Market Is Worth $3.6 Billion or $10 Billion, Depending on the Analyst
Anyone who has tried to build a business case around gaming peripherals has run into the same wall. Ask five research firms what the market is worth in 2026 and you get five answers spread across a range of nearly three to one. Here is the actual spread from published 2026 estimates: Around $3.6 billion in 2025, growing at 5.5% to roughly $5.2 billion by 2032. $5.5 billion … [Read more...] about The Gaming Peripheral Market Is Worth $3.6 Billion or $10 Billion, Depending on the Analyst
3D Gaming Technology Market Forecasts Keep Outrunning What Actually Ships
The 3D gaming technology market is one of the strangest categories in the research literature, because almost nobody who buys these reports agrees on what is inside them. Some definitions cover real-time rendering engines and middleware. Others fold in GPUs, motion capture rigs, head-mounted displays, stereoscopic panels, and the tooling around photogrammetry and neural … [Read more...] about 3D Gaming Technology Market Forecasts Keep Outrunning What Actually Ships
The Gaming Hardware Market Is Now Priced by the AI Memory Shortage
For most of the last twenty years, the gaming hardware market was priced by gamers. Console makers set a loss-leading price and earned it back on software attach rates, GPU vendors segmented by performance tier, and component costs drifted downward on a reliable curve. That model has been suspended, and the cause has nothing to do with games. Memory is the reason. What … [Read more...] about The Gaming Hardware Market Is Now Priced by the AI Memory Shortage
Mobile Gaming Trends in 2026: Web Shops, Hybrid Stacks and Flat Install Growth
Mobile will take in roughly $121 billion this year, more than PC and console combined, off a base of about 3.1 billion people who play something on a phone at least occasionally. The segment grows about 6.8%. The player count grows about 4.2%. Almost all of the difference is monetization work, and that is where the year's real changes are happening. The web shop is the biggest … [Read more...] about Mobile Gaming Trends in 2026: Web Shops, Hybrid Stacks and Flat Install Growth
Gaming Market Sets a Record in 2026 and a Single Release Explains Much of the Growth
The headline number for 2026 is the largest the industry has ever produced. Roughly $214 billion in consumer spending on games, up from about $203 billion last year, with the player base pushing toward 3.7 billion people. Every platform is green. Every region is green. On the face of it, this is a healthy market compounding at a comfortable mid-single-digit rate. Look at where … [Read more...] about Gaming Market Sets a Record in 2026 and a Single Release Explains Much of the Growth
IFA Berlin 2026: The Creator Hub Expansion Changes How Gaming Hardware Brands Justify a Berlin Booth
IFA opens at Messe Berlin on Friday, and the most consequential thing about the 2026 edition for hardware brands has nothing to do with what gets launched. It has to do with who is standing in the hall when it happens. The show is expanding its Creator Hub for the second year running. In 2025 the Hub drew more than 1,200 creators, roughly half again as many as the year … [Read more...] about IFA Berlin 2026: The Creator Hub Expansion Changes How Gaming Hardware Brands Justify a Berlin Booth
Tencent in Talks to Acquire SuperPlay From Playtika in Deal Valued at Up to $1.5 Billion
Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli mobile gaming studio SuperPlay from Playtika, in a deal that would value the company at between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. The negotiations come less than two years after Playtika bought SuperPlay outright, and mark a reversal for a business that was originally billed as Playtika's entry point into faster-growing casual gaming. A … [Read more...] about Tencent in Talks to Acquire SuperPlay From Playtika in Deal Valued at Up to $1.5 Billion