{"id":11148,"date":"2020-12-22T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2020-12-25T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:39:10","slug":"vg-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/22\/vg-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"VG Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/videogames-are-a-bigger-industry-than-sports-and-movies-combined-thanks-to-the-pandemic-11608654990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from MarketWatch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 lockdowns expected to help global gaming sales rise 20% to nearly $180 billion in 2020, and experts don\u2019t see growth taking a hit in 2021 after release of next-gen Playstation, Xbox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/topics\/journalists\/wallace-witkowski?mod=MW_author_byline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wallace Witkowski<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-274254?width=620&amp;size=1.507656065959953\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Videogames have grown to resemble competition-based, interactive movies, and the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the industry to make more money than movies and North American sports combined.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global videogame revenue is expected to surge 20% to $179.7 billion in 2020, according to IDC data, making the videogame industry a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined. The global film industry\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/news\/global-entertainment-industry-surpasses-100-billion-for-the-first-time-ever-1203529990\/\" target=\"_blank\">reached $100 billion in revenue for the first time<\/a>\u00a0in 2019, according to the Motion Picture Association, while PwC estimated North American sports would bring in<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/us\/en\/industries\/tmt\/library\/sports-outlook-north-america.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0more than $75 billion in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ click to continue reading at MarketWatch ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MarketWatch Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic COVID-19 lockdowns expected to help global gaming sales rise 20% to nearly $180 billion in 2020, and experts don\u2019t see growth taking a hit in 2021 after release of next-gen Playstation, Xbox By\u00a0Wallace Witkowski Videogames have grown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}