A browse through Deloitte Insight’s online databases of reports yields a surprising amount of results while searching ‘esports’, with more than a dozen articles and insights written and translated into many languages, from Spanish to Japanese, from Italian to Dutch.
The firm’s involvement in esports stems back to 2015, based on a Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Prediction piece for 2016, with a nostalgically stylised ‘eSports’ in the title.
The first big esports report came in 2017 in German focusing on the European esports market with a sequel published the following year – since 2019, the report, now titled “Let’s Play!