Football is no doubt the most popular sport in the world today. Asides from the billions of dollars spent by football clubs, FIFA and fans of the sport, we find millions of passionate fans controversially playing coach, analyzing teams , players, formations and tactics as they watch. This passion for football has given rise to football viewing centers, football betting (online and offline) and video game centres in almost every city in Nigeria. And as long as people are still passionate about football, viewing centers and game centres will continually be an avenue to make money in Nigeria for those who will take the advantage.

Just imagine you own game centre with just 3 game consoles (PS 1, PS 2 or PS 3) and each customer pays N50 to play one game which lasts for 10mins. Let us do some arithmetic:

Let’s say your game centre is fully operational from 12pm to 7pm (i.e. 8 hours)
If 1 game lasts 10mins, then in 1hr, 6 games will be played. Meaning u make N300 in an hour (i.e. 6 games X N50)
Therefore in 8 hours you make N2400 (i.e. N300 X 8 hours)
And that’s just the amount made on 1 game console/ station!
For all 3 game consoles, you earn N7200 (i.e. N2400 X3)
Is that not some good money to be made?

What is a Play Station Video Game?

Play station video games are software loaded into consoles. These include war games, board games sports games like soccer, wrestling, motor and bike racing etc. these game consoles have different models e.g. play station 1, play station 2, play station 3 and the newly introduced Xbox.

Are you interested in starting your own video game centre and join the big boys to make money in Nigeria? To read more: http://makemoneynigeria.com/money-nigeria-investing-video-game-centre-2/

I don't know about now, but about 5 - 6 years back, it was a money spinner. I used to work in a games center after my secondary school. We were netting an average of around 12,000 per day. Business was best on weekdays because of students that come around.

The best place to site such biz is where you have lots of schools. The good thing about this biz is if its sited in an area with fairly stable electricity.

I run this business too and i make nothing less than N20,000 monthly as a residual Income.

benz33: I run this business too and i make nothing less than N20,000 monthly as a residual Income.

isn't that little for an income,how many games do u run?also thinking of starting one

stpat1: I don't know about now, but about 5 - 6 years back, it was a money spinner. I used to work in a games center after my secondary school. We were netting an average of around 12,000 per day. Business was best on weekdays because of students that come around.

The best place to site such biz is where you have lots of schools. The good thing about this biz is if its sited in an area with fairly stable electricity.

plz how many games where there and how much do you charge per game,kindly evaluate everything,thx

marshaldollz:
plz how many games where there and how much do you charge per game,kindly evaluate everything,thx

2 years down the line did you later set up the business?

einfo:
Football is no doubt the most popular sport in the world today. Asides from the billions of dollars spent by football clubs, FIFA and fans of the sport, we find millions of passionate fans controversially playing coach, analyzing teams , players, formations and tactics as they watch. This passion for football has given rise to football viewing centers, football betting (online and offline) and video game centres in almost every city in Nigeria. And as long as people are still passionate about football, viewing centers and game centres will continually be an avenue to make money in Nigeria for those who will take the advantage.

Just imagine you own game centre with just 3 game consoles (PS 1, PS 2 or PS 3) and each customer pays N50 to play one game which lasts for 10mins. Let us do some arithmetic:

Let’s say your game centre is fully operational from 12pm to 7pm (i.e. 8 hours)
If 1 game lasts 10mins, then in 1hr, 6 games will be played. Meaning u make N300 in an hour (i.e. 6 games X N50)
Therefore in 8 hours you make N2400 (i.e. N300 X 8 hours)
And that’s just the amount made on 1 game console/ station!
For all 3 game consoles, you earn N7200 (i.e. N2400 X3)
Is that not some good money to be made?

What is a Play Station Video Game?

Play station video games are software loaded into consoles. These include war games, board games sports games like soccer, wrestling, motor and bike racing etc. these game consoles have different models e.g. play station 1, play station 2, play station 3 and the newly introduced Xbox.

Are you interested in starting your own video game centre and join the big boys to make money in Nigeria? To read more: http://makemoneynigeria.com/money-nigeria-investing-video-game-centre-2/

3 years down the line

Bro Wadup your site don kpain, wetin happen?

anyways, how did you bill your Customers?
was it a software that helped you keep gamers accountable or you did the monitoring your self?

Hi,

Your thread is quite helpful but I have a couple of questions though;
1. How do I set price for adventure games. I mean its easy to set 50 bucks for most games (a game of soccer at roughly 10mins or a session of Call of Duty since its easy to set time in most of the modes except Campaign. Mortal Kombat can be priced per round). All these are easy to price but some other gamers might want to enjoy God of War, COD Campaign Modes, Drake's Fortune, Assassins Creed, or Phanthom Pain. The value customers will enjoy in this games is a direct function of how long they spend holding the pad. So, how do we price.

2. Second question. Am only about to set up my own Game Center and am interested in knowing how to best manage and control the players time since am trying to start with 4 game stations. Is it better to use the TV timer function or manually look at each game and physically stop the player when the time is up. The difference between these too options is that the player who now has to drop pad has no choice since the TV has gone off on its own as opposed to him arguing with the manager or begging for extra time. Is there any other option.

Please advice!

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Hi,

Your thread is quite helpful but I have a couple of questions though;
1. How do I set price for adventure games. I mean its easy to set 50 bucks for most games (a game of soccer at roughly 10mins or a session of Call of Duty since its easy to set time in most of the modes except Campaign. Mortal Kombat can be priced per round). All these are easy to price but some other gamers might want to enjoy God of War, COD Campaign Modes, Drake's Fortune, Assassins Creed, or Phanthom Pain. The value customers will enjoy in this games is a direct function of how long they spend holding the pad. So, how do we price.

2. Second question. Am only about to set up my own Game Center and am interested in knowing how to best manage and control the players time since am trying to start with 4 game stations. Is it better to use the TV timer function or manually look at each game and physically stop the player when the time is up. The difference between these too options is that the player who now has to drop pad has no choice since the TV has gone off on its own as opposed to him arguing with the manager or begging for extra time. Is there any other option.

Please advice!

I also plan to open one soon.
The console used depends on d target clientele. In some areas, ps2 is still well enjoyed. However, due to the emergence of FIFA, a ps3 or ps4 is required if your target customers are current.

For affordable gameplay, quick return on investment, reduced start-up cost and easy maintanance (e.g used ps4 pad is about 13k, ps3 pad is about 4k), I would advice using ps3 consoles since they also run current FIFA version.

For soccer, charges are #30, #50 and #100 per player on the ps2, ps3 and ps4 consoles respectively for 10 mins match. Charge is extrapolated for racing, combat and adventure games

Set the tv timer after game is through loading

Hi,

Your thread is quite helpful but I have a couple of questions though;
1. How do I set price for adventure games. I mean its easy to set 50 bucks for most games (a game of soccer at roughly 10mins or a session of Call of Duty since its easy to set time in most of the modes except Campaign. Mortal Kombat can be priced per round). All these are easy to price but some other gamers might want to enjoy God of War, COD Campaign Modes, Drake's Fortune, Assassins Creed, or Phanthom Pain. The value customers will enjoy in this games is a direct function of how long they spend holding the pad. So, how do we price.

2. Second question. Am only about to set up my own Game Center and am interested in knowing how to best manage and control the players time since am trying to start with 4 game stations. Is it better to use the TV timer function or manually look at each game and physically stop the player when the time is up. The difference between these too options is that the player who now has to drop pad has no choice since the TV has gone off on its own as opposed to him arguing with the manager or begging for extra time. Is there any other option.

Please advice!

Please answer this if you may. How much did you spend to start up your game centre??