Orlando Is 5th Best City for Gamers

With this year’s video game hardware sales up 81% compared to the previous year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2021’s Best Cities for Gamers. Overall, Orlando ranked as the 5th best city for gamers, and ranked first in several categories.




Gaming is serious business. WalletHub reports that globally, it’s a $159 billion industry, and video game sales have received a huge boost during the COVID-19 pandemic, with no signs of slowing down. To determine the best places to be a serious gamer, WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 22 key indicators of gamer-friendliness. The data ranges from average internet speed to video-game stores per capita. Here’s how Orlando ranked in various categories:

The Gamer Lifestyle in Orlando (1=Best; 50=Avg.):

• 1^st – Video-Game Job Openings per Capita
• 29^th – Video-Game Stores per Capita
• 1^st – Arcades per Capita
• 27^th – Share of Households Owning a Computer
• 1^st  – Electronics Stores per Capita

For the full report, please visit the WalletHub report here.