Wednesday, February 13, 2013

EOC Week 2 BCG-Video Games


Video games are a good way to help keep your mind off of a lot of bs in life and they help get rid of some tension but depending on the game you can rage and piss off people everyone around you.  
“Seven of the top ten large-cap value creators (those with market valuations of more than $35 billion) are listed on stock exchanges in rapidly developing economies as well—Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, and South Korea.”
“During the conference Microsoft released some sales figures for the Xbox 360. Microsoft has sold more than 76 million Xbox 360's worldwide, which is three times what the original Xbox sold. Also 24 million Kinect sensors have been sold since it launched.”
“After blogging about the Top 50 game developers, I got more interested in the revenue of the game industry. I have been searching for good game industry sales data for a while, since the NPD group figures are not easy to come by and studies related to revenue usually cost quite a bit (e.g. game developer research). Everyone knows about about favorite industry sources like VG Chartz, Metacritic, and GameStats. The latter two are more concerned with rating data while the first is definitely interesting for people interested in sales figures. However, some other really cool and helpful sites turned up when I started looking for game sales increase over the last decade in the US, which by the way looks like the following:”
Game Industry Revenue
So the video game market has increased in the past decade yet even with the economic down turn people were still out buying video games and a lot of the video games and companies that are coming out are either cash cow or a mystery as to weather they will succeed or not.
        ©  Ricky Bubna 2013

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