With the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 drawing large crowds to Los Angeles until June 15 and U.S. gaming revenues expected to exceed $25 billion this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has 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 esports tournaments.
| 1.) Orlando, FL | 11.) San Francisco, CA |
| 2.) Seattle, WA | 12.) San Jose, CA |
| 3.) Austin, TX | 13.) Fremont, CA |
| 4.) New York, NY | 14.) Pittsburgh, PA |
| 5.) Atlanta, GA | 15.) Columbus, OH |
| 6.) Los Angeles, CA | 16.) Raleigh, NC |
| 7.) Las Vegas, NV | 17.) Anaheim, CA |
| 8.) Irvine, CA | 18.) Virginia Beach, VA |
| 9.) Boston, MA | 19.) Madison, WI |
| 10.) San Diego, CA | 20.) Portland, OR |
- 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.
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