Lightweight mobile games can fuel revenue growth for Indian game developers

Various market estimates indicate the Indian smartphone market at about 220 - 250 million devices, which make it the 2nd largest after China. The smartphone influx into India has been spearheaded by a plethora of super cost effective devices (most of them in the sub Rs. 10,000 range). This has unlocked tremendous value for the mobile gaming ecosystem and India offers a great green-field opportunity for mobile game developers. It poses an opportunity for the game developer community to be sensitized and aware of the kind of devices the Indian gamers are using and optimizing for them. There is need of better quality games developed, specifically tailored to the Indian gamer's needs and limitations with a restricted capacity smart phones.

Most of the smartphones today in India are the lower end of the spectrum and this means the basic specs they have are typically a RAM of 1GB and 8 GB overall storage space. Online mobile gaming marketplaces like Gamesbond from Mauj Mobile who witnessing close to 70 million + downloads annually are gearing up to introduce more lightweight games which will not only fuel the volume growth but also increase the user engagement and hence opportunity to pay & play.