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General: Gaming Industry on the Grow
Szark
News ManagerMember Posts: 4,420
Gamasutra is reporting that the Entertainment Software Association has released statistics indicating that the US gaming industry is growing significantly faster than the US economy.
According to statistics released by the Entertainment Software Association, the growth of the U.S. video game industry is outpacing the growth of the U.S. economy by a wide percentage, growing at 17% from 2003-2006 as compared to the 4% economic growth during the same period.
The ESA has concluded an extensive study on this data, entitled Video Games in the 21st Century. Conducted by Economists Incorporated, the study also finds that the industry directly employed 24,000 in the U.S. at an average salary $92,300 during 2006.
The ESA states that the video game industry contributed $3.8 billion to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2006. Though 24,000 are directly employed, according to the report in total 80,000 are employed directly and indirectly by the industry in 31 states and U.S.-based game industry employees received a total of $2.2 billion in compensation.
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Comments
Actually it makes perfect sense. What are you going to do when the economy is slow and you can't find a steady job...?
Play video games, obiviously.
Hehehehe...but seriously, this is good news for the new incoming talent to the industry (such as myself). Maybe we'll only have to battle each other to near death for jobs in the game industry.
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...but time flows like a river...
...and history repeats...
-Leader of "The Fighting Irish" in DAoC on Hib/Kay-
Screw "near death", I want a Deathmatch for positions! I have several pikes with names on them to put heads upon
, would you like to be one?
Just kidding, or am I... seriously though it is great news something to shove back at all the naysayers that berate gaming (and the sub-culture) as a giant waste of time and harmful to society's youth. Well guess what this sub-culture just might pull this economy's ass out of the fire someday, as it is being spearheaded by society's youth.