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David Barnes
April 4th, 2:15am
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Zeebo's Low Cost Console Opens a New Frontier for Religious Games
Zeebo, the games console for heathens and papists.
Christian games are a great niche for indie developers. Christian games can make money even if they are fairly low quality, selling to Sunday Schools, families, and other religious institutions.
Because the United States and other English speaking countries have traditionally been the biggest video game market, religious games tend to be Christian, protestant, and evangelical.
But that's going to change as video gaming becomes more global. And I reckon there's going to be tons of profitable niches in Muslim games, Hindu games, and Catholic games as video gaming gains more ground in non-Protestant but deeply religious countries.
Zeebo is a low cost games console and computer platform that plugs into a cheap TV. It's targeted particularly at the following countries:
- Brazil -- Catholic
- Mexico -- Catholic
- India -- Hindu
- China -- Officialy atheist with quite a bit of Buddhism and Taoism
Islam is the biggest religion in the world. But while Googling [Christian Video Game] nets 42 million results, [Muslim Video Game] brings in only 3 million. [Hindu Video Game] brings in only 800 thousand.
Hinduism is a religion just made for video games...
If you follow one of these religions it's well worth thinking about how to teach aspects of them through a game, because this is going to be a growing area as video gaming arrives in emerging markets.
