Essential Facts About the U.S. Video Game Industry - by ESA (www.theesa.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by popcar2@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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Saw this today and thought it was interesting.

Most surprising was ESRB claiming 78% of parents regularly use ESRB ratings and 86% use parental controls on their kid's console.

Maybe it's just that parents have gotten more technical and aware of bad content but it felt like every single child was playing mature games like GTA V back in the early 2010s. Nobody cared what kids were playing.

Another shocking stat was Dragon Ball Sparking Zero being the #5 top grossing PC/Console game in 2024. I know that series is popular but... How? There's been very little buzz around it.

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[-] doeinthewoods@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sparking Zero had huge buzz around it. It was hyped up as the successor to Budokai Tenkaichi. It was pretty popular on social media. It had meme-y meta moments like using Yajirobe online for a while. Huge playable roster really added to the hype. Dragonball is incredibly popular. Dragonball may actually be more popular today than the early 2000s. It's had a huge resurgence since the series canon resumed with the battle of the gods movie

Parents I know are very active users of parental controls from what I've seen

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