Popularity of Video Games

Let's knock out the most critical number straight out the gate: as noted in 2020, more than 200 million Americans play video games in the US alone. That means roughly 65% of American adults are video gamers.

Worldwide, though? The market is even more influential. According to Statista, Latin America has 274 million gamers, the Middle East/Africa has 388 million, and Europe has 391 million. The most astounding audience is in Asia, though, with 1.5 billion gamers. That means that, worldwide, the number of gamers in the world as of 2020 was roughly 2.77 billion.

It's estimated that by the end of 2021, that will rise to 2.8 billion (if not more). The number of gamers increases exponentially each year; in 2016, the number was only 2.5 billion. Since there are only 7.67 billion people on the planet, roughly 36% of the world are gamers. So it's only a matter of time before everyone in the world plays video games. The global video game population is also being shifted up thanks to the popularity of mobile games.

The gaming industry sees the way their product sells and is making immense profits off of it. In 2016, the value of the US market alone was $17.68 billion. With those kinds of margins, no wonder more and more business professionals are flocking to video games