What Will The Future Of eSports Betting Look Like In 2026?
At the moment, the eSports betting market seems to be in the full swing. Nowadays it’s hard to find an online sportsbook that doesn’t include gambling on eSports events. Similar to the eSports industry itself, the betting on these events has experienced massive growth in the past few years, but that growth also brought along some changes. And, certainly, we can expect even more evolution and adjustments in the future, hopefully for the better.
Even though this betting market is in a rather healthy state right now, there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Right now oddsmakers and bettors alike are focusing only on a limited number of games, mostly centered around PC titles. This has its advantages as it creates a higher quality of gaming and better and more experienced competitors. But, no bettor will complain if the range of the games you can wager on expands in the future. This is exactly what we may expect to happen as more and more niche markets will be added to sportsbooks’ portfolios.
What Will The Future Of eSports Betting Look Like In 2026?
eSports industry and betting market that follows it is making huge strides in Northern America and Europe, but it’s still predominantly an Asian affair, especially strong in South Korea, Japan, and China. We can expect this to change to at least to some extent in the next 5-10 years. The United States is particularly in the focus, now that more states are opening their doors to legal gambling. The US is a traditionally strong betting market, and we suspect that a big chunk of money currently in traditional sports betting will find its way to eSports.
Sportsbooks Add More eSports Betting Options
Nations all around the world are rapidly adjusting their regulations when it comes to sports betting, but eSports gambling seems to be lagging behind in this area. Most American citizens still use off-shore betting providers for their eSports wagering. Of course, sooner rather than later, the governments will catch up, and we’ll probably see a fully regulated eSports betting market in the next 5 to 10 years. For now, can only hope that the laws to be made will improve the betting experience, rather than hamper it.
The betting platforms themselves will go through a serious development process as the number of users increases.
One of the main issues bettors complain about when gambling on eSports is the lack of live options and markets, and several platforms have already announced that they are working on expanding this part of their offer. Also, in the next couple of years, we’ll probably see AI taking a bigger role. We already have had matches where AI bots have defeated experienced gaming pros.
To help make sense of expected changes, the In4Research has published a report on the eSports betting market analyzing potential scenarios that can occur from 2020 to 2026. The report includes data on all of the market’s important players: betting platforms, game developers, users, and regulators. It provides a detailed forecast of the new opportunities, trends, external and internal factors influencing the industry development, and a prediction of the market share by 2020. The report also pays special attention to the potential consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the state of the eSports wagering industry in the future.
