#2-Top 10 Interesting Facts About Online Gaming

#2-Top 10 Interesting Facts About Online Gaming

1:Pokemon was inspired by butterflies. When Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of the series, was a kid, he used to collect caterpillars and watched them turn into butterflies and revealed that the Pokemon was inspired by butterflies.

2:Xbox was originally named DirectXbox.

3:PlayStation 1 was originally planned as the Nintendo console. Initially, Sony was chosen to design the electronic components of the Nintendo console but Nintendo ditched the project. Later on, Sony decided to make a console anyway and brought PlayStation 1.

4:Females represent only 19% of the workforce in the gaming industry. Blizzard increased the total number of female interns by 166% in the year 2016. EA is also proud of its ladies because 48% of participants in vital employee development programs are female.

5:The average price of a video game on Steam is $8.86 in the year 2019.

6:The gaming video content market was $5.2 billion in 2018. Twitch stats reveal revenue was at $1.6 billion, leaving YouTube second with $1.2 billion, despite the latter’s enormous audience.

7:A majority of adults – especially seniors – believe video games are a contributing factor to gun violence. Six-in-ten adults say the amount of gun violence in video games contributes a great deal or a fair amount to gun violence in the country today, according to the Center’s 2017 survey.

8:Games are great for language gains. The research even showed that language acquisition did not even require that the game was a language game.

9:The favorite game of Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder was Tetris. In the 1900s, he submitted his high scores to Nintendo Power so many times that they refused to print his scores. Therefore he started sending them by using another name, “Evets Kainzow” that is reversed of his original name.

10:The indie game market is estimated to be around $1 billion on Steam alone.