Fantasy sports which is also known as Dungeons and Dragons for jocks in the United States is becoming a growing industry in India, along with online gaming. In a matter of fact the mobile gaming currently has 300 million users and it is expected to grow to 440 million by 2022. So now onto the first question which this article needs to address.
Why is this happening?
It has never been easier in the history of the world for a group of people to have access to the same information thanks to the evolution of the Internet. Then with the invention of the sports phones there are tons of fantasy sports apps that you can use all over the world. A lot of times it is the younger generation of Indians that are dominating the sports fantasy and gaming world, however the number of hard core fantasy gamers is relatively small. A recent study from Nov of 2019 stated that 75 percent of the gamers played one to three times a week versus 20 percent who stated they played fantasy sports more than five times per week.
What platforms can I play fantasy sports on.
Apps
This one is the most obvious. In the United States you can play pretty much any sports on large volume apps such as Yahoo and ESPN. In India, one research has indicated that Cricket is the most used sport. An article on Insightsuccess.in states that the use of gaming on cellphones is currently an industry which has gone into the hundreds of millions and doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. However, what the article doesn’t state is what the exact definition of gaming is. This means that fantasy sports more than likely is included within the stats of the statistics listed in the article. Some of the more popular apps for cricket are Star Sports Cricket Live, Jio TV and more. If you click on the link provided you will see a complete list of the more popular apps for Cricket and also some places where you can see Cricket on live TV as well.
Even better yet with a quick Yahoo search on an article shows the top 10 fantasy apps, one of which is Dream11 and has a referral code and RS100 joining bonus.
While fantasy sports has definitely become a thing in India there is also another popular form of the market that has also become a hit as well. What is that, you ask?
Online gaming
The online gaming market has huge potential in India and for that matter around the world. Gone are the days where you need either a big, hunky computer that you can only use in a solitary space and have to wait to turn the device on and off. New are the days that all you have to do is pick up a mobile phone, open up an app (download it before first time use of course) and then play and you have a huge advantage if you have the ability to create apps on the Google or Apple platforms as you can access literally the entire world since mobile phones are sold all over the phone with those two basic platforms. Since gaming has become a thing, now onto the next question. Where else can I play games?
Computers
One thing that almost any app developer almost always wants is to get as many eyes on his app as possible. So how does one do that? One of the most obvious is to make it available on as many types of electronic devices as possible. It’s not like in today’s tech-savvy world we are short on types of technological devices to have to appeal to. It may sound old school but you can also put the apps on computers. The content of any well developed app will look different on your computer than it will for the phone because of the vast differences on the amount of the screen. So that is something that developers have to take into consideration when they create their games. After all, you can also access apps on IPads and pretty much anything that allows you to be on electronics.
Conclusion
One of the main reasons for the explosion of the market for games is the ease of access to what it was even 30 years ago. Developers should always want to expand their platforms and their is no reason why those who develop fantasy sports apps should do the same thing.
