2017’S Best Cities for Gamers – WalletHub Study
With the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 drawing large crowds and U.S. gaming revenues expected to exceed $25 billion this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2017’s Best Cities for Gamers.
To determine the best places to be a serious gamer, WalletHub’s number crunchers compared the 100 largest cities across 20 key indicators of gamer-friendliness. The data ranges from average Internet speed to video game stores per capita to number of e-sports tournaments.
Top 20 Cities for Gamers
- Orlando, FL
- Seattle, WA
- Austin, TX
- New York, NY
- Atlanta, GA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Irvine, CA
- Boston, MA
- San Diego, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Fremont, CA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Columbus, OH
- Raleigh, NC
- Anaheim, CA
- Virginia Beach, VA
- Madison, WI
- Portland, OR
Best vs. Worst
- Las Vegas has the most video-game stores per square root of the population, 0.0283, which is 23.6 times more than in Memphis, Tenn., the city with the fewest at 0.0012.
- Pittsburgh has the highest average download speed, 14.62 Mbps, which is 3.1 times higher than in Honolulu, the city with the lowest at 4.70 Mbps.
- Gilbert, Ariz., has the highest share of households with a broadband connection, 94 percent, which is 1.9 times higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest at 50 percent.
- Durham, N.C., has the cheapest monthly Internet cost, $40, which is 2.5 times cheaper than in Anchorage, Alaska, the city with the most expensive at $101.36.
To view the full report and your city’s rank, visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-gamers/36270/
