By Manish Sharma
As Riot games decided to get into the mobile gaming industry by launching Valorant Mobile in India, there is a buzz about how will it perform in India. Being a big market for the mobile gaming industry there is already a lot of competition in this niche. India is a great place for Valorant (by Riot Games) to thrive, but there are some hurdles that Riot Games have to pass thrive in India.
1.The Complexity Of The Game
The PC version of Valorant is known to
be a very complex and high skill cap game, and mobile games shouldn’t be this
complex cause mobile games are made for casual players for the most part. So Riot
have to make the game more user friendly, but that’s a big risk to take cause they have
to change their game mechanics which was a big reason for their success in PC
gaming.
2. The Popularity of other Games like PUBG
PUBG is the most popular game in
India covers the vast majority of players. And PUBG also being similar to
Valorant in the game mechanics. So Valorant will have to go against an established game
which will be hard as there aren’t many PC gamers in India to provide good
enough support to Valorant going against PUBG. This also brings us to the 3rd
point.
3.Attempts Of Other similar
games
COD Mobile was released in India in the fall of 2019 started off with a blast but as time went on it’s popularity got lower comparatively to PUBG, which was supering to see from a big franchise like Call Of Duty, that creates doubt for Valorant to be as popular as PUBG.
As the average age of PUBG players in India is between 18-25, which
means the majority won’t have high-end devices to enjoy Valorant mobile at
its fullest and Valorant is notorious
for its need of high specs to run the game normally, and naturally, people won't
play a game that requires higher specs than what their device can provide, that’s why PUBG made a lighter version of their game called PUBG Lite.
The Positive Impact
These were only the things in which Valorant
might struggle at, Valorant is still very popular in western countries so it will be interesting
to see how will valorant mobile performs in one of the biggest markets for
mobile gaming and we couldn’t neglect the positive impact it will show in the mobile gaming industry in India by providing diversity in the market attracting
more people towards it. And valorant is a highly competitive game that will
help grow the eSports community in India.
Some FAQ (Valorant Mobile Tap-Tap):
Q. Is Valorant coming to mobile?
A. Yes, as the name suggests Riot Games is launching 'Valorant Mobile' as a mobile game.
Q. Is Valorant available for PC?
A. Yes, Valorant Mobile is available for PC.
Q. Is Valorant available on Android?
A. Not yet, but it will definitely come on Android.
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