{"id":62496,"date":"2014-03-11T11:58:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62496"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:01:17","slug":"mobile-gaming-outpaces-traditional-online-gaming-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62496-mobile-gaming-outpaces-traditional-online-gaming-in-sa","title":{"rendered":"Mobile gaming outpaces traditional online gaming in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online gaming revenues in South Africa are forecast to grow by a small-double digit percentage between 2013 and 2017, reports German secondary research organization yStats.<\/p>\n

Mobile gaming outperforms pure online gaming by far in South Africa, with the revenues differing by several times, according to the report.<\/p>\n

yStats.com recently published its report “EMEA Online Gaming Market 2014”, revealing a trend of gamers away from console and PC games toward online and mobile games.<\/p>\n

This move to mobile and social is especially pronounced in emerging markets such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa compared to Western Europe, where a high percentage of gamers still play on their console or PC, but even there the trend is apparent as smartphone and tablet penetration continues.<\/p>\n

In African countries, such as Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal, online and mobile gaming is also gaining popularity, with a small double-digit share of Internet users engaging in this activity on their mobile devices and PCs.<\/p>\n

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Online gaming revenue growth is predicted for South Africa in the coming years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":56516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,5793],"class_list":["post-62496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-sa-gaming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}