Global cloud-gaming revenue is expected to hit $1.4 billion by the end of this year, up 125 per cent from last year, according to a new report.
Fuelled by the stay-at-home situation brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the market is on track to cross the $5bn mark in 2023 as technology and infrastructure continue to improve, said Amsterdam market research company Newzoo.
“Continuous developments and innovation across the sector mean the cloud-gaming market’s revenue and potential will continue to skyrocket,” said Guilherme Fernandes, market consultant at Newzoo.
“Part of 2021’s massive jump in revenue is due to increased cloud-gaming activity from companies big and small, as we expected in last year’s report ... Simply put, cloud gaming is here to stay, and its importance and prominence will only grow.”
Cloud gaming, also called gaming-on-demand, runs video games on remote servers and streams them directly to a user’s device.
Consumer appetite for cloud gaming rose rapidly in the past few months with the creation of new platforms such as Microsoft’s xCloud as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and as Nvidia resolved early licensing issues with its GeForce Now service, which now supports over 800 titles.
E-commerce company Amazon and social networking platform Facebook also entered the market with their own cloud gaming services.
Due to the high frequency of new services and the big feature improvements for existing ones, Newzoo predicts there will be 23.7 million paying cloud-gaming users by the end of this year.
“2020 has been a year full of fantastic achievements for us, business-wise,” said Andreas Hestbeck, chief executive of RemoteMyApp, a cloud-gaming solution and gaming content aggregator in Poland.
“Having so many people that were suddenly stuck at home was an opportunity of a lifetime for all companies offering entertainment services. RMA registered great spikes in interest.”
Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
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