Industry Revenue

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Recently there was an Ebay auction for the complete set of 22 game consoles with all of the games for each console. It retails at $1.2 million dollars worth of consoles and games.

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The revenue of the gaming industry is one that is slowly climbing up the ladder of the world markets. It had added a value of $4.9 billion to the GDP in 2010. It was reported in 2010 that the gaming and software industry had grown an astonishing 10.6% from 2005-2009 when from 2005-2008 it was
16.7%. It was around this time that the economy had grown 1.4% from 2005-2009 and 2.8% from 2005-2008. There was an annual increase of the gaming and sofware industry by 8.65%.

The employees of the total amount of both direct and indirect went over 120,000. The annual revenue per employee was $89,781. In early 2010 the number of states that had gaming publishers/Developers was 19, the number of locations that were gaming publishers only was 55 while gaming publishers/developers was 56, totaling the amount of locations around the US to 111 with over 32000 employed.Click here for an article of total spending on video games!


Citation: Schutte, Wybe, and Peter Warman. 2012 Country Summary Report. N.p.: New Zoo, Nov. 2012. PDF.