Sunday, November 29, 2020

Visualizing the Growth of the Gaming Industry

The Visual Capitalist is a cool website that displays economic data in concise and entertaining ways.

Below is a chart showing the growth of the gaming industry 1970-2020 from Pong and Atari to mobile games and VR. I was little surprised that the CAGR for the industry has only been 2.6%, growing from ~$60B in 1980 to $165B in 2020.


And from Statistica, the breakdown of game console sales:

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