Increasing Influence of Smartphones in Esports and Their Significance
The Esports industry has seen significant growth in the past few years. Though numerous factors have led to this, the emergence of smartphones is one of the critical reasons. Let us talk about in what ways the role of smartphones in promoting esports is to such an extent.
As we know, esports is a multiplayer online gaming competition played through video games. In the past few years, esports has significantly impacted the youth of India due to various promotions on social media platforms and YouTube. Though the esports industry is not alien, the emergence of high-end smartphones has undoubtedly made this industry quite popular, especially among the country’s young population.
Today, one of the few popular esports categories is:
- Battle Royale
- First Person Shooter
- Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
- Card Games
- Fighting
- Real-time strategy
The Role of Smartphones in the Esports Industry
Initially, online gaming was about video games. People used to play online games on personal computers and laptops. Slowly and gradually, smartphones came with some basic games. People started playing and enjoying those basic games on their smartphones.
As smartphones evolved, so did online games. But even then, the online games on smartphones were meant to be played in bed or while traveling to pass the time. Then came the era of evolved online games that were too engaging for one to play throughout the day. Online games such as:
Mobile Legends
Wild Rift
Arena of Valor, etc., gained vast popularity among the youth owning smartphones. Now they started playing online games whenever they had leisure time or just had the urge to play. They started spending more time playing online games on their smartphones.
As smartphones started becoming high-end and more advanced, online games too evolved. They became more and more popular due to their attractive and impressive graphics and features. While the developers wanted to give better experiences to online gamers, they understood that smartphones might not be suitable devices for playing online games on them in the long run. Thus, they developed the games keeping a casual player in their mind. Even then, the youth didn’t stop, and they continued playing online games on whichever smartphones they thought would be suitable for the games they wanted to play.
One of the significant roles smartphones have played in the esports industry is providing better accessibility and connectivity to online gamers. One cannot deny that the popularity of esports in India is also due to the affordability, reliability, and durability of the high-end smartphones available in the Indian market.
The increasing buying power of people and growing demand for online entertainment with the best user experience is what stays on the mind of smartphone manufacturers. Yet the smartphones available today are more like casual devices for esports. This is why online gamers often change their smartphones, as it can provide them with longevity for esports. It can be expected that soon smartphone industry will evolve even more to position smartphones as a suitable device for playing esports rather than just a simple device.
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