79.6% of gamers want to develop professionally in the gaming industry.
85% of console users in the world play video games in their free time.
63.7% of young people say they consume another type of content while playing.
More and more companies and industries are taking over e-Sports and the growing market it generates through giant tournaments in multiplayer games, such as League of Legends, Valorant, Fortnite, DOTA 2 and more, Well, success stories like that of ‘benjyfishy’ make the “gaming school” be seen as having greater professional potential.
Only in Mexico reports of The CIU 2020 they considered 57.4 percent of the population as gamers, making the video game industry one of the segments that generated the most profits for the entertainment industry, since only this year 116.9 million smartphones were in use, which positions the smartphone as the favorite device among Mexicans to play.
With this growing universe, not only as a hobby activity, but as a profession, many careers are growing by leaps and bounds in the technology sector, increasing the demand for professionals specialized in various areas of the gaming universe.
According to a HyperX survey, 79.6 percent of gamers would like to develop professionally in Latin America, with interests within the eSports notable: 78.5 percent as a professional player, 7.1 percent founding their own team and 4.9 percent working as a coach.
The survey was carried out on 1,767 people of both sexes, between the ages of 18 and 40, who show a general panorama of what generations millennial, centennial and alpha wait in their near future to live.
Mom takes him out of school to play Fornite; he is already a millionaire
E-Sports as a business have had exponential growth, so much so that PwC calculations estimate a market of 1.8 billion dollars by 2023. Thanks to stories like that of Benjy David Fish This impulse has made more young people show their talent and efforts in video games.
It all started when, at 15 years old, the ‘benjyfishy’ player debuted in 2019 as one of the first video gamers in the world in Fortnite competitions, as his mother made the difficult and controversial decision to support his dream and take him out of school. to focus on his trajectory.
At that time, Benjy won his first tournament with a prize of 11,300 dollars, which made the family continue to support this path in the gaming industry and managed to prioritize their time to improve their skills for Fortnite, a game that became the most important in the world.
During these three years, although she never set foot in an educational institute again, the mother of ‘benjyfishy’ he continued instructing him at home, while little by little he became one of the most famous and popular of the Fortnite World Cup, earning up to 570 thousand 256 dollars (about 11 million 088 thousand 856.02 Mexican pesos).
Now, in 2022, the 18-year-old has moved his interest from Fortnite to Valorant, Riot Games’ online shooter, which has positioned him within the Czech Enterprise Esports team.
Likewise, in this new era, Benjy combines with various Twitch streams, adding more than 3.9 million followers and carving out a new competitive path and expectation.
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