Future of Social gaming

According to a new report released today from market research firm Parks Associates, social gaming is on track to become a $5 billion industry in the next five years.

Staggering as that estimated growth rate and market size is, according to Juniper, mobile gaming is expected to grow to $11B over the same period.<br /><br />Both of these parallel trends underline the massive shift to and within digital.  According to Electronic Arts, digital now accounts for 45% of the overall games market up from 31% in 2008. This is useful and demonstrates the increase of social gaming and the increase in the markets, this is useful research as I'm really interested in social gaming and mobile gaming and is a market i could potentially get into.