Quick Facts on the Gaming Industry

The year 2018 was taken as a tremendous record-breaking year for the entire video gaming industry where the industry hit $43.4 billion in revenue. 
In terms of the number of gamers, 2014 saw over 1.82 billion gamers all over the world. However, 2019 has an estimate of over 2.47 billion gamers which will further increase to about 2.7 billion by the year 2021.
Nonetheless, we will be analyzing some pretty interesting gaming facts that you never knew about.
These include the number of people that play video games, the genre that is being played most, and we will have an idea if gamers are couch potatoes. Relax and enjoy.
Stats And Facts About Video Games
While the gaming industry is the youngest amongst all the prominent entertainment mediums, it has strongly established itself to be rated among the most prominent in the entire world.
The days of gamers being seen as nerds who reside in the basement of their parent's homes are over. As it stands, the gaming industry raked in not even millions but billions of dollars.
This is as a result of the fact that people keep flocking to purchase some of the latest blockbuster games and to get their hands on the latest consoles. Nonetheless, some facts about the industry include:

• Majority of the gamers are not children

The media has on countless times portrayed gamers as those teenagers who have no job and are geeks and do not associate with non-gamers. Well, that is false. Over 70% of gamers are over age 18. 
The research carried out in diverse studies shows that the average gamer is usually in his or her thirties and has been playing video games for over a decade.

• Developers are not always the smartest in the room

As a result of the fact that these developers have to start somewhere, you should never expect some of the greatest games to be ever made to come from individuals who have never made a game in their life before getting the job.
An example is BioWare, it would amaze you to know that the creators of dragon age and mass effect were simply medical doctors that just recently graduated.
As for GoldenEye, a game for Nintendo 64, it has a team of nine men and roughly eight of them had never worked on a game in their life.
Some gaming statistics you should know include:

• Over seventy-five percent of Americans have one gamer in their household. If you cannot think of anyone in your entire family then it is probably you.
• If you never knew, now you should be aware that about twenty-five percent of forty-five to fifty-four-year-olds have an undying interest in gaming.
• The amount of gamers who play their games using consoles fall under the twenty-five to thirty-four years age bracket and this percentage is roughly twenty-seven percent. Also, roughly thirty-one percent of console gamers fall into the top-rated twenty-five percent income bracket.

Mobile Games
Mobile gaming is the most prominent form of gaming all over the world. It is a growing industry across the globe. Eighty-five percent of games who reside in the Philippines make use of their smartphone devices for gaming.
As it stands, Egypt had the biggest percentage of both computer and laptop gamers with 69%.
Wrapping it up
The world of gaming has changed from what we used to know back in the day. Computer games have evolved from Maple Story to Starcraft to Fortnite, while the graphics in video games are getting more advanced every day while mobile games are getting more addicting on the daily. 

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