How Network Latency Impacts Mobile Gaming Experience

Matthewallen21 May, 2025Technology

Mobile gaming now commands one of the most significant shares of the global entertainment market, with billions of players and dollars in play. As gamers chase immersive experiences, performance issues mean immediate user drop-off. At the core of most gameplay complaints is network latency—the delay between a player’s action and the game server’s response. Even delays as short as 50–100 milliseconds can cause missed inputs, out-of-sync actions, and visibly broken gameplay, especially in real-time multiplayer games.