With 132 million current players within the South East Asia market, game developers are seriously considering porting their games over in order to make some serious cash. And in a few years the market is expected to double to 1.2 billion, and that’s if it doesn’t surpass that number beforehand. This includes areas in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. More hardcore players are signing up than ever before, and it may be due to the incredible growth of the smartphone market. The funny thing about the stat is that it doesn’t include client-based desktop gambling.
“Southeast Asia is poised for significant mobile growth by 2019 with smartphone subscriptions increasing five folds, and mobile data traffic experiencing 1000% growth rate,” said an M88 spokesperson.