Thailand set to become ASEAN’s gaming hub, says Thailand Game Show organisers

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With its burgeoning gaming sector, Thailand is poised to become the gaming hub of the ASEAN region, according to organisers at the Thailand Game Show 2023.

 

The nation’s gaming industry, valued at 30 billion baht (US$ 822,368,400), is leading in Southeast Asia and ranks 20th globally. In addition to boasting impressive user numbers and hosting gaming competitions, Thailand is also nurturing game developers, which aligns with the government’s National Soft Power strategy.

 

During her speech at the opening of the Thailand Game Show x Wonder Festival Bangkok 2023 event, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, vice-chairperson of the National Soft Power Strategy Committee, stated, “This government showed its commitment to support the gaming industry as one of 11 sectors in the national soft power strategy.” The event, running for three days, is being held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center.

 

Thailand has not only demonstrated its prowess in gaming through industry value but also through its performance in e-sports. The country bagged the highest number of e-sport medals among ASEAN nations at this year’s Asian Games in China, securing third place overall.

“Thailand can grow the gaming industry as people can earn enough money to make it a career,” proposed Paetongtarn. She cited the success of Home Sweet Home, a horror adventure game crafted by a Thai developer that went viral, amassing 800,000 global downloads. Paetongtarn also highlighted the potential for game-related careers, such as ad sales, event expertise, casting, and budget management, reported Bangkok Post.

 

by Alex Morgan

Picture courtesy of Suchit Leesa-nguansuk

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-10-21

 

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[StayinThailand2much]

And I thought it was already... All I see is Thais playing games everywhere, and if I ask them, what they'll do next, they usually tell me: "Play games..."

[Hunz Kittisak]

Thailand should have casinos 

the ones at the borders are sucking up thai money anyways, might as well control the flow out 

[HappyExpat57]

Just about out of hub topics.

[sammieuk1]

Every time I go to my local Tesco or Home Pro lately the cashirers and shelf stackers are at the hub already 🤔

[Crok]

Are the spokespeople using too much medicinal products to believe this??

 

[kwan]

A Hubba Hubba and a Ding Ding. Thailand has more hubs that you can shake a stick at ! All successful ! 5555

[bristolgeoff]

Gambling online shops everywhere illegal casino,s.lottery etc etc,the only thing is casino,s in thailand and the reason they are at the borders for thais that travel in they many.Now they talk about it to make it legal again I wait and see like everyone else

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

Thailand should have casinos 

the ones at the borders are sucking up thai money anyways, might as well control the flow out 

Thailand does have casinos, only they are owned by untouchables and therefore do not officially exist. They only make the news when they are raided because of a dispute between them.

 

The country does not have official casinos as that would damage the business of those who lurk in the shadows. Any talk of establishing legal casinos is quickly forgotten as in the recent proposal to open them in Chonburi.

[bbbbooboo]

Hmmmm... Thailand's burgeoning imagination more like it= hub of dreams(so many hubs such little time?)

[flexomike]

Thailand has is way past the limit on hubs

[kinyara]

I suspect the only people that mention hubs in this country are the shoddy little western owned clickbait online advertising websites masquerading as news outlets.

 

 

[Kalasin Jo]

555. Showing my age I guess. Thought the headline meant a gambling hub!

[Celsius]

Thailand should become a PornHub

 

Already everybody is wearing a t-shirt

[Jiggo]

31 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

Gambling online shops everywhere illegal casino,s.lottery etc etc,the only thing is casino,s in thailand and the reason they are at the borders for thais that travel in they many.Now they talk about it to make it legal again I wait and see like everyone else

The post is about Gaming not Gambling ie PS5 etc...

[thailand49]

38 minutes ago, kwan said:

A Hubba Hubba and a Ding Ding. Thailand has more hubs that you can shake a stick at ! All successful ! 5555

Exactly everything Hub, medical hub, they Hub so much getting if not already " Hub of Stupidity "

Twenty years they allocated million to built a new outdoor stadium up at the Indoor Stadium Year after year they stole the money for Beach road cash cow last Mayor claim it would be finished by year end 2022, maybe they should look into the corruption there too add it to the unfinished Condo at Bali Hi.

[Morch]

2 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

Exactly everything Hub, medical hub, they Hub so much getting if not already " Hub of Stupidity "

The Hub of all Hubs.

 

"One hub to rule them all..."

[madmitch]

35 minutes ago, flexomike said:

Thailand has is way past the limit on hubs

But have any of these hub proposals actually succeeded?

[Pipi Olly]

Singapore is gonna to be a tough competitor.

Just sayin'.

[MadMac]

Oohhh another hub. About time. 

[retarius]

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Just about out of hub topics.

Yes I've not seen a new hub announced for a few weeks now and was wondering if the economy had crashed or something. Never forget under Thailand 2.0, Thailand is the hub of all things digital in ASEAN and a few other things besides that we won't mention as it may cause embarrassment (eg hub of submarines; hub of English language educmacation (sic) and others too numerous to mention).

[HappyExpat57]

24 minutes ago, Morch said:

The Hub of all Hubs.

 

"One hub to rule them all..."

"One hub to find them ..."

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

And I thought it was already... All I see is Thais playing games everywhere, and if I ask them, what they'll do next, they usually tell me: "Play games..."

Most students I know say the same thing, what did you do today..

answer play games.

[bizboi]

1 hour ago, kwan said:

A Hubba Hubba and a Ding Ding. Thailand has more hubs that you can shake a stick at ! All successful ! 5555

At least it’s not the “hub of subs” anymore!!!

[bizboi]

1 hour ago, madmitch said:

But have any of these hub proposals actually succeeded?

So the “hub of hub failures” then?

[Morch]

44 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Most students I know say the same thing, what did you do today..

answer play games.

I like games. Not the one mentioned in the OP, and probably different taste than most Thai youngsters.

On one I play pretty regularly (POE) there are quite a lot of Thais (think the game is even translated to Thai). Most of the ones I meet in-game are maybe a bit older, often passable+ English, and generally fun folk. Generous too, in-game.

 

While many Thais play games in Thai language, there's almost always some English involved anyway. On more 'international' games English gives access to info about the game, so there's extra motivation to improve. It's not all bad, IMO.

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, kwan said:

A Hubba Hubba and a Ding Ding. Thailand has more hubs that you can shake a stick at ! All successful ! 5555

Me? I'm just a spoke.😮‍💨

[StayinThailand2much]

4 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Just about out of hub topics.

About time to promote Thailand as the "Hub of (pointless) Hubs"...

[retarius]

While we are becoming the land of a million hubs, how about becoming a PornHub (cool name for a business); a broker matching folk who are desperate to have sex with other people who are desperate to have sex; etc etc. There's a lot of money in sex, why not exploit it for the good of the poor in Thailand?

[Elkski]

This is about e gaming , e sports. Fir info there us a area of the interweb called twitch.  It has more viewers watching theses big  e sport matches than i think all the other sports combined.   They have more people than like 5 major news shows in the USA.    I may not be exactly accurate but this is big among the youth of this World