Starting a Gaming Cafe
Starting a new business is always an exciting, challenging, and attractive prospect. One gets a sense of thrill and a great deal of satisfaction from starting a business, from planning to organizing, leading, and executing various aspects of the management of the business.
What better than starting a business where you can convert a hobby or an interest into a full-fledged business?
Starting an internet gaming business is a function of the rapid technological strides over the last few years. The rapid advances of the internet have opened up new vistas of business growth prospects, from internet cafes, website creation, and maintenance to the new frontier in online entertainment, internet gaming.
When starting an online gaming business, you must consider a few essential aspects to ensure business success. Some of these criteria are listed below:
- Infrastructure:
- Hardware: An internet gaming business would require adequate infrastructure for game portals or high-end, sleek personal computers or consoles with adequate memory configurations to support the gaming software. For instance, large monitors, optical mice, and the like would be required to create a high-class and high-end experience for gaming customers.
- Software: Quite a few different gaming options are available online nowadays. For instance, there are online poker and casino and quite a few sports-based or combat games. Many of these are available online; in some cases, you may have to procure and load the software locally. In any case, you can recommend a plethora of sites to your customers for their greatest gaming pleasure. Additionally, you must do regular market research to gain information on the latest gaming trends and customer sentiments. This way, you can have the latest games and cater to the ever-changing needs of those who frequent your gaming cafe.
- Networking: You would require proper server management systems when you have 8-10 or more PCs at your gaming cafe. Many games could be interlinked and played from the server as multi-user modules. - Location:
The location of a gaming cafe is paramount as it determines the number of footfalls and customer base. Ideally, renting out space in a mall, shopping complex, or perhaps a commercial area makes the best business sense. Also, if the gaming area is near a school, the chances of garnering business from teenagers increase exponentially. This is because the typical target audience will be students or customers up to 30s. - Marketing:
Attracting customers is another area that needs to be taken care of. Half the battle is won if your gaming cafe is at a prominent place that has enough footfalls. If not, you may have to promote your business through in-house contests, distributing pamphlets in nearby localities to spread the word and garner more business. - Franchise Option:
Another option you could consider is getting into a franchise agreement with an online gaming corporation looking to expand locally and nationally. This generally provides better reach, marketing, and technical support facilities.
If you apply your creativity, do adequate planning, and execute plans well, starting an online gaming business is quite an exciting and lucrative business venture.
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@shahjee -Dubai is bit city for which u need to have adequate license. For serving coffee u dont need much license for other stuff your would need beverage license/food license. For PC gaming u need to have license from company such as Steam
@Abdul Qadir -Vizag has cafe such as SVM36. its a bowling and console gaming lounge as well as.
@Dhiraj Trigunayat- to open a cafe in your city you need to tell your investment .Bcz opening a gaming lounge u need to have funds for interiors and gaming both separately. Depending upon your investment i can say better how can you use your money wisely.Later i can tell u ROI for that.
@Felisa Adams- Usa has lot of gaming lounge and people play much over there but usually you would see its Like Lan gaming .Local area network gaming in which case you need to have at least 8-10 console. People in USA plays more like guitar hero .SO a big setup dedicated to which would be helpful.Let me know area you are going to hire then i can reply u back.
@dharmendra -Purchase can be made online over various website .But you have to be peculiar about specific requirement of games you need to have in your cafe.Bcz you can't purchase each and every game from market.for that even u take franchise or you talk up with some who has already owned a gaming lounge.
@AntwonTate - ANtwon i believe you can chat more on mail .My mail id is Coolguy.anshul@gmail.com
for more queries please mail me to coolguy.anshul@gmail.com
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For everyone investment details -
- interiors cost around 5-10 lacs for area about 400-800sq feet.
- AC around 1.5 ton each for 400 sq feet.
- nothing lesser then 6 console for 400 sq feet
- for 1000 sq feet you would need atleast 8 console.
- costing matter as per your city.
- in india we can start by around 10-20 lacs easily with monthly turnover around 1 lac rupees.
@alison -UK have lot of cafe .majorly Console and PC mixture.SO you have to come up with around 8 console and 20 PC gaming .
Area you would require would be -2500 sq feet min. Investment would be around 40,00,000/Rs as indian currently. For more help please mail me more details,.
@Murali- i have mentioned all the details in this mail in case you need more info please contact via Email id.
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
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@jatin - initially costing of gaming lounge is around 8-15 lacs. For basic setup of gaming lounge you can visit our website. in punjab we have gaming lounge in city like ludhiana and mohali. getting license in punjab would be easy.just rent agreement and property tax of place.
@farhan - sir your initial investment is pretty low. Please understand alone of bowling you would need around 7 lacs per lane so i would request you to invest around 80-85 lacs for bowling and gaming only. For carting you would need around 35 lacs .
@Emmanuel Molikoe -sir i can say around indian costing it would cost you around 35 lacs rupees. we can certainly make arrangement for you. Please provide me complete details
@Judy -hi, we would suggest you to go with xbox kinect as you will get more gaming options. you can get in touch with me on my email id and i will provide more details on this
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@basu-sir net working is something like cyber cafe .yeah if you wanted to open gaming lounge u need to have al teast budget of 10 lacs to start in your city. in case you wanted to go for gaming cafe you can start with 10 computers and license of windows and cyber cafe license would be require along with municipal licensee
@michelle- respected initially you have to tell me your exact investment and according to that i can suggest how much console you should keep and what expense you should made on interiors.west london is good place to start but i would suggest you talk to me or consult before taking any step bcz i work for leading gaming lounge company in india so i have bit of idea for this.so i would request you to tell me total budget and i can say what and how can you start this. in case you need more help please email me on my id
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@Avinash -Hi avinash i would request you to send us your budget so we can discuss more into this.space and budgets are key feature to decide what you should look in your area.Also return of investment would be complete depend upon location & you planning to start console or PC gaming lounge .Please update me us on that.
@santosh -License would be entertainment license and sales tax number as your sale would be more then 30-40 lacs that the reason. please email me more details if required.
My email - coolguy.anshul@gmail.com or info@play360.in
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@Pratik patel - please check your email
@Hamad - see unlimited is pretty good category to say but price you have to tell me so i can talk more on this. Requirement is good space in your city so people can approach you more beneficially. Easy transportation to your place. best interiors for restaurant and your gaming cafe so people can come and spend money in your place, Secondly is service at your place. another thing good knowledge of games and good configuration of hardware. If you have more query please feel free to email me -coolguy.anshul@gmail.com or info@play360.in
@vikrant singhal -all category mentioned by you is different. gaming lounge need experience to run and restaurant need beautiful interiors with best food with most economic foods at your city would come under uttar pradesh so lot of setting with govt and local police wallah to run the business smoothly. More thing can be discussed after you reply with me your budget. my details coolguy.anshul@gmail.com or info@play360.in
people please be clear with your budget and provide your email id or at least reply back with your query on same page thx
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@Akshay . ... - we already running a gaming lounge in delhi .There are 3 types of permission required .1)Muncipal permission .2)police permission 3)Entertainment tax license. now days if you starting a big venture then you need to have permission from publishers else its not required. Also you have to mention your investment into this and area so i can help better way thanks
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@Hamad, Thanks for writing to startupbiz. I am replying for your details and more query you can ask me too.
- see unlimited is pretty good category to say but price you have to tell me so i can talk more on this. Requirement is good space in your city so people can approach you more beneficially. Easy transportation to your place. best interiors for restaurant and your gaming cafe so people can come and spend money in your place, Secondly is service at your place. another thing good knowledge of games and good configuration of hardware. If you have more query
also now days people are more into 3d gaming and big screen gaming so you can think for that.In india we recently had 3d cricket gaming and football session .Even we can introduce the same.
so first we have to find space to accommodate then need to work with interiors .so i would request to give us chance for this. So you can reply with your query and we would love to help you
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@Gautham, Okay your budget is 15 lacs .
So i have some query for you-
a)area you looking to startup this
b)how big area you looking
c)What initially you planning to setup into this
d)And deposit of rent and electric is included in your 15 lacs
for license -
1)Muncipal license
2)Police issue a license
3)Entertainment tax license issued by Entertainment dept.
4)Non gambling license
5)Service tax license
2 license are extra as its Karnataka. please reply with my question i asked you ... thanks
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
i have small query which i would like to ask
1)What your total budget .
Total budget means - Budget for console ,budget for interiors and budget to rent our space.
2)how big space you looking and what crowd you planning to come to your cafe
3)what ur marketing budget .
there are lot more query so please be kind enough to reply early one then i will give up better solution thx
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@rahul, What exactly small town we are talking about? As far as i know in MP has good place to do business like indore or gwalior or bhopal or jabalpur. Apart from them there are no good places. Its just a suggestion. 3d games is good option but again your return wont be much higher. i prefer we start with console gaming lounge with 32" lcd tv and xbox console. IN case any more query please feel free to get in touch with me. And yeah 7 lac is pretty ample budget thx
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@p k sharma, Please tell me ur budget and how big space you wanted to start . in initial you have to take certain license in your city which is told by me in early post. apart from that please elaborate more on your funds
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@Shah, its nice to see that you wanted to start this big lounge .
1) So which city you planning to start.
2) 96" is pretty big to invest i see .Bcz as pr my knowledge only 42" or 52" is pretty big idea
3) nextly apart from screen how much you plan to invest on interiors
4) bcz for gaming lounge interios matters a lot 5) ideas such as broadcasting football matches
6) serving liquor with gaming awesome
7) projector room
8) adding more of games like football, snooker and ice hockey
in case you have more query. also i would love to you have your gmail or skype id so mail u more presentation for this project
thx and regars
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
First of all we need to divide that money into three parts
1)rent of space
2)Interiors
3)Console and lcd tv.
So lets first talk about rent .If you plan to give rent from your 20k i dont see much getting save in your hand. Nextly for any business u need to have running capital in our hand. Running capital first assets in rent.
Interiors - please note if you want people to come to your place to play and enjoy you realy need to have decent ambiance which means decent interiors. For budget we will talk later on this.
console - Depending upon what you wanna keep in your gaming lounge .such as WII or xbox360 or ps3. i would suggest go with one platform as maintaining would be not issue. And please dont pick wii as in usa most family has wii in there homes. games selection plays a key role. As pr my knowledge you will find most people playing blackop2 and halo .so all these games should be there .
Your main focus should be around multiplayer gaming itself as its gives you better money in return. You can check this website www.play360.in as they have opened lot of gaming lounge under 10000$ to 20000$ budget which will help you to get better image. Also please note in india console are expensive but rent is less .So cost would be almost same. ALso you can return me email on my mentioned email id or add to chat more on my given gmail id. i know you have still more query so please reply so i can help you. thx and regrds
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@farhan - sir your initial investment is pretty low. Please understand alone of bowling you would need around 7 lacs per lane so i would request you to invest around 80-85 lacs for bowling and gaming only. For carting you would need around 35 lacs
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@sanatan, It nice of you showing interest in opening gaming cafe. i have some queries which i would like to ask you.
1)In which city you plan to start gaming cafe
2)What your total budget for this project
3)you plan to start in Mall or some Landplace
4)What your budget for interiors and Marketing
5)License varies from city to city .So clearing which part of city you are i can say
thx
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@Naser, just trying to clear you saying u have 8000sq feet existing gaming lounge in Dubai and you looking for sponsor. I must say it would be hard to find over here bcz people looking to setup gaming lounge not looking to sponsor in this forum Still you have to clear what type of gaming cafe you have may be i can help you to improvise. Such as if you have pc cafe you can find sponsor such as AMD or intel If you have console gaming lounge you can look for Microsoft or sony or some controller manufacturing company please get it right now days people dont sponsor as Money they look to host event. If you wanted to improvise you can still get in touch with my email id Thx and regards
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@sanatan, It nice of you showing interest in opening gaming cafe. i have some queries which i would like to ask you.
1)In which city you plan to start gaming cafe
2)What your total budget for this project
3)you plan to start in Mall or some Landplace
4)What your budget for interiors and Marketing
5)License varies from city to city .So clearing which part of city you are i can say
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@shahjee -Dubai is big city for which u need to have adequate licenses. For serving coffee u dont need much license but for other stuffs you would need beverage/food license. For PC gaming u need to have license from company such as Steam. in case you have more query please let me know.
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@dharmendra -Purchase can be made online over various website .But you have to be peculiar about specific requirement of games you need to have in your cafe. Bcz you can't purchase each and every game from market.for that even u take franchise or you talk up with some who has already owned a gaming lounge.
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@murali, have you started the project or you still planning .in case you have query please let us know
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
hi @Altaf- its very easy to start gaming lounge in any city. U need some license which can be easily available in your city. license such as - Muncipal license, Entertainment license, and few more. Dealership can be available on certain purchase of stock. For more help please mail me coolguy.anshul@gmail.co
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@jatin - initially costing of gaming lounge is around 8-15 lacs. For basic setup of gaming lounge you can visit our website. in punjab we have gaming lounge in city like ludhiana and mohali. getting license in punjab would be easy.just rent agreement and property tax of place.
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@farhan - sir your initial investment is pretty low. Please understand alone of bowling you would need around 7 lacs per lane so i would request you to invest around 80-85 lacs for bowling and gaming only. For carting you would need around 35 lacs .
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@Emmanuel Molikoe - sir i can say around indian costing it would cost you around 35 lacs rupees. we can certainly make arrangement for you. Please provide me complete details.
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
@michelle- respected initially you have to tell me your exact investment and according to that i can suggest how much console you should keep and what expense you should made on interiors. west london is good place to start but i would suggest you talk to me or consult before taking any step bcz i work for leading gaming lounge company in india so i have bit of idea for this. so i would request you to tell me total budget and i can say what and how can you start this. in case you need more help please email me on my id
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant
Secondly its easy to start pc gaming lounge.
1)Proper pc (Decent enough to hold up games for next 2 years.
2)Good furniture and full ac ventilation.
3)Proper computer tables so people can play on LAn system.
In case you have more query please feel to mail me back to please provide me your contact details so i can talk more on this.
coolguy.anshul@gmail.com || Gaming Cafe Consultant