Riding on the growing popularity of advanced mobile games such as PUBG Mobile and Fortnite, gaming smartphones are projected to reach 1.8 per cent of the total smartphone shipments in the Indian market by the end of this year, a new report said on Friday.

“With the increasing demand for mobile gaming by millennials, the gaming smartphone industry is set to explode with new growth opportunities for not just traditional smartphone vendors, but new entrants, such as gaming PC manufacturers. This also translates into a significant opportunity for mobile gaming development companies to generate new gaming content”, Amit Sharma, Analyst, Industry Intelligence Group, CMR, said in a statement.