India is the second largest mobile gaming market in the world.

Question

Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): India is the second largest mobile gaming market in the world.

Reason (R): There are more than 950 million internet users in India.

Select the correct answer from the code given below:

1. A. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
2. B. (A) is false, but (R) is true
3. C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
4. D. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) (Correct answer)

Correct Answer

Option D — Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Key Points

• Assertion is true. India is the world's second largest mobile gaming market by number of users, behind only China, and the largest by app downloads.
• Reason is true. India has crossed 950 million internet users, the vast majority of them mobile-first, driven by cheap data and low-cost smartphones.
• (R) explains (A). Mobile gaming in India is a volume story — a massive base of cheap-data smartphone users is precisely *why* the market ranks second in the world. The causal link holds, so the answer is option (d).

Additional Information

• India's online gaming sector is regulated at the Centre by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
• The AVGC sector (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics) has been identified as a sunrise sector, with an AVGC Task Force set up to promote it.
• Data affordability is the underlying driver: India has among the lowest mobile data tariffs in the world, which is the standard explanation for its scale in every digital-adoption question.