5 Video Gaming Industry Facts and Statistics You Should Know in 2018

We have posted an article How Big is Video Gaming Industry last year, but a lot has changed since then. While in today, we want to share some latest facts and statistics that you may not know in 2018.

  1. The largest country by game revenue

According to the research, there will be more than 115.8 Billion spent on gaming in 2018, and China is the biggest gaming market based on the revenue generated via video games, which generated one-quarter of the gaming incomes in the world.

  1. The biggest company by Game Revenues

There is no doubt that Tencent has become the biggest gaming company by revenues in the world, since there are many players are engaged in Tencent games like Honor of Kings and League of Legends (LoL) around the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

  1. The best-selling video games

To be honest, it is out of my expectation that Teris is the best-selling video games in the world up to date. I think many of you enjoyed playing the game just like me. Well, it is said that there are more than 170 million downloads in the world, including 100 million paid. That’s amazing.

  1. How many video game players in the world?

Based on the data, there are more than 2 Billion video game players in 2016 and the number is increasing with years. Among these players, half of them are from the Asia-Pacific region.

  1. Top Games Awarding Prize Money

As you may already know that you can make money by playing games these days, because there are many games are offering attractive prize money. The prize money of Data 2 tournaments is exceeded 137M, which is game with the highest awarding prize money in the world. There are some indications show that the gaming eco will get more and more important in the future.

Want to know more details and facts and statistics about video game trends? Just scroll down to check this infographic designed by Filmora team, which also provides a video editor named Filmora and a screen recorder named Filmora Scrn.

Sohail Qaisar

Sohail Qaisar is the Founder and Managing Editor of GamesHT.com, he founded this site in 2011. He loves to write on video games, tech & hardware. Contact him on this email address: contact@gamesht.com

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