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by NickPollard 4084 days ago
You misread that chart; The video game industry pulled in $887M in the US in One Month (February) of 2014. For scale, bear in mind that GTA5 made worldwide revenue of $1billion in it's first three days.

If we go by Gartner[1], the games industry was predicted at $93billion in 2013. That's over 21%, so a couple of orders of magnitude more than 0.21%.

[1]:http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2614915

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You're right; I can't tell where exactly that 407B number comers from. It's irrelevant though in the context of what I was refuting, i.e., the claim that "most" software devs are in the game industry, which is ridiculous.