What's What! Video Game Facts (84/100)

The number of active video gamers worldwide reaches big numbers.

Is there such a thing as an army of video games players? Well, I think the truth is that it's, and some data show it, in 2015 a study carried out by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) the trade association of the video game industry in the United States, estimate that, worldwide, there are more than 1,800 million video game players, many of whom are users of different platforms at the same time.

I have already spoken before the worldwide market of video games which generated in 2015 sales of US$ 91,800 million, and according to data from Newzoo in 2017 expected to generate $108.9 billion) in game revenues.

These numbers have recently been heavily referenced by Intel, who have begun developing products aimed at gamers, around this number Intel considers that about 700 million are very active players being the pc still the most used device to play with 62% of gamers, while 56% use a console.