{"id":18753,"date":"2017-11-02T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piek.international\/?p=18753"},"modified":"2020-01-29T04:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:12:47","slug":"e-sport-gaming-electronic-interconnect-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piekblog.com\/en\/e-sport-gaming-electronic-interconnect-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"E-sport or gaming with the electronic interconnect industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>If you think that this article about e-sport will be about pedometers and heart rate counters,\u00a0you had better stop reading. E-sport is \u2018a multiplayer video game played competitively for\u00a0spectators, typically by professional gamers\u2019, according to the Oxford dictionaries. Whether\u00a0e-sport is really a sport is still open to debate. Those who think that the idea of sports\u00a0presupposes physical exertion do not think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case may be, e-sport is becoming increasingly popular worldwide and has\u00a0come to be seen as an important economic factor. In Germany alone turnover in the field of\u00a0e-sport was already over \u20ac 50m in 2016. Analysts expect this turnover to keep going up in\u00a0the next few years and reach 130m by 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube fusion-aligncenter\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlbBdnmVokc?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Why is it that e-sport is so popular? Things started with the first Gameboy, followed by video\u00a0games, play consoles and computer games. The games took off, even though parents, then\u00a0as now, were not in favour of their children spending so much time in front of a computer\u00a0screen playing games. Still, forbidding it was not really an option then, and it still isn\u2019t. What\u00a0is different now is that professional players compete with each other all over world.<\/p>\n<p>Tournaments are highly organised and professionalised, and prize money is sometimes in\u00a0excess of \u20ac 1m. In the USA halls have already been built where e-sport tournaments can be\u00a0held and where many thousands of spectators can watch the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>What games are played? Which ones are hot? The top spots are taken by games with such\u00a0names as League of Legends, Dota2 and Starcraft II. As to more traditional sports, there are\u00a0only a few football clubs that have taken steps in the virtual world, but FIFA has already\u00a0made a name for itself here. Its electronic arts football game has been a classic for a number\u00a0of years now.<\/p>\n<p>The huge growth in e-sport activities offers many challenges to the electronic interconnect\u00a0industry. In the old days a computer\u2019s speed was measured by the speed with which it could\u00a0process documents. This sort of measurement is a thing of the past. Nowadays computer\u00a0speed is expressed by the way a game can be played. Peripheral devices, such as a mouse\u00a0and a keyboard, are getting extra functions, enabling the gamer to play faster and better. E-sportsmen are an interesting consumer group that are targeted by marketers of many\u00a0companies. And these companies want to adapt their technologies to the new e-sports uses.<br \/>\nThis signals the start of many interesting developments.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E-sport or gaming with the electronic interconnect industry - PIEK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you think that this article about e-sport will be about pedometers and heart rate counters,\u00a0you had better stop reading.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/piekblog.com\/en\/e-sport-gaming-electronic-interconnect-industry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E-sport or gaming with the electronic interconnect industry - 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