Recap: The pandemic's effect on gaming didn't but mean increased sales final year, more than people were tweeting about the subject, too—a lot more than. Over ii billion gaming-related tweets were posted in 2022, marker a 75 percentage increase over the previous year.

Covid-19 has had a devastating touch on on many businesses, such as cruise operators and airlines, but some have benefited from lockdowns and more than people opting for dwelling entertainment. It's been a boom time for streaming services, while PC shipments saw their highest growth in ten years.

Gaming, both hardware and software, has also experienced a massive uptick in sales and hours played, something reflected in the amount of social media chatter on the field of study. The number of unique gaming tweet authors was as well upwards, by 29 percent compared to 2022.

Gaming was the 6th most followed topic on Twitter. Inside that category, the about followed topics were:

i. Gaming

2. Gaming News

three. Esports

4. Gaming Influencers

v. Playstation

6. Fortnite

7. Phone call of Duty

eight. Minecraft

9. Brute Crossing

10. Xbox

While one might expect the US to have the highest number of gaming tweets, it sits in second spot behind Nihon. The rest of the top half-dozen comprises Korea, Brazil, Thailand, and the Britain.

Animate being Crossing was the most tweeted well-nigh game, followed by Fate/1000 Social club. The latter is a costless-to-play Japanese mobile game from 2022 that's very popular in the country and grossed over $4 billion worldwide as of 2022.

With major conferences going digital last year, there were plenty of gaming events to tweet about. The 2022 Games Awards was the most popular, with the Future of Gaming on PS5 Consequence second.

Esports besides saw an increment in tweets. 14 percent more posts related to the subject area arrived in 2022, while the League of Legends Worlds 2022 was the about talked about event, FaZe Clan the well-nigh tweeted near team, and @Mongraal the well-nigh tweeted most esports competitor.

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