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JEDDAH: 抖阴短视频鈥檚 Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud unveiled the National Gaming and Esports Strategy on Thursday.
The strategy marks the beginning of a new era towards leading the sector and making the country a global hub for the gaming industry by 2030, according to state news agency SPA.
It also serves the Saudi Vision 2030 objectives, which aim to diversify 抖阴短视频鈥檚 economy, create new job opportunities in different industries and 鈥榩rovide world-class entertainment鈥� to residents and visitors.
鈥淭he National Gaming and Esports Strategy is driven by the creativity and energy of our citizens and gamers, who are at the heart of the strategy,鈥� said the Crown Prince.
Raising the quality of life by improving players鈥� experience, providing new entertainment opportunities, and achieving an economic impact by contributing to the GDP by about 50 billion riyals are the strategy鈥檚 three main objectives.
SPA鈥檚 report also suggests that this will lead to the creation of 39,000 new job opportunities by 2030.
抖阴短视频 aims to produce more than 30 competitive games in the Kingdom鈥檚 studios and become one of the top three countries containing the highest number of professional esports players.

At the recently concluded The Next World Forum in Riyadh, Ahmed AlBishri, COO of the Saudi Esports Federation (SEF) said: 鈥淚n 2018, we only had two teams. Today, we have over 100 teams signed under the Federation, with over 500 professional players signed under official contracts. Even on the level of creating opportunities and jobs, we鈥檙e dealing with bigger and bigger numbers that we鈥檙e seeing, and we鈥檙e expecting that these numbers will multiply greatly in upcoming years鈥�

The country intends to implement the strategy through 86 initiatives covering the entire value chain, which was launched and managed by more than 20 government and private entities.
These initiatives are divided into eight focus areas, which include technology and hardware development, game production, e-sports, additional services, and other aspects such as infrastructure, regulations, education and talent acquisition.
The gaming and esports sector is considered the fastest growing among all media sectors, and is expected to reach $200 billion by 2023. It also confirms the kingdom鈥檚 position as a geographical link between the East and West.

The Crown Prince鈥檚 announcement comes in the wake of the 10-week Gamers8 festival, which closed with The Next World Forum, and which saw Saudi and international gamers take part in the biggest event of its kind globally.

Prince Faisal bin Bandar, President of SEF said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e very proud of what [our players] have done, but it鈥檚 not where we want to end it. We want to keep pushing and start doing more regular tournaments, participating in more international tournaments, we brought some here. There鈥檚 plenty going on before the end of the year that we want our young Saudi men and women to participate in and give them a pathway to qualify and earn their place on those global stages.鈥�

鈥淭here鈥檚 our work with the international federations. At the end of this year, the global Esports games for the Global Esports Federation in Turkey, which we are hosting next year, so we鈥檒l start preparation for that. We have our world championships with the International Esports Federation, IESF, also at the end of this year.

鈥淲hen I say concrete steps, this goes across the board. We want to make sure they have the opportunities to qualify, that our partners are all aligned with us and moving in the same pathway, and that we鈥檙e doing the best for not just the local community, but the international community," he added.

Meanwhile Omar Batterjee, Head of Marketing, Communications, and Partnerships at SEF, highlighted just how big the esports industry has become.

鈥淕aming and esports I think is one of the most interesting [industries] because everyone looks at it as if they鈥檙e merely the video games that their children play, they don鈥檛 understand that there鈥檚 an entire industry behind it. 

鈥淛ust in Saudi last year in 2021, expenditure in gaming and esports reached one billion dollars, 3.75 billion riyals, and we're a population of about 21 million gamers, so you can understand the magnitude of that industry in Saudi and it鈥檚 important that we try to convey that message.鈥�