Analyst: Worldwide Video Game Market to Reach $82 Billion by 2017

As big as video game are today, they’re about to get a whole lot bigger.

New analyst research from DFC Intelligence predicts the global market for video games will hit $82 billion by 2017 — a 22 percent increase over this year’s expected $67 billion. That’s news that’s likely to be a relief to those who have eyed the past seven months of sales data (all of which have shown significant declines).

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