MDST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ubisoft, Digital Extremes, Bioware

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Week Seven

Video Game Industry

The basics

Stats are of 2015

20 billion dollars in sales in United States

72% of American households play computer or video games

111 billion dollars’ global sales

One of the fastest entertainment industries in world!

Becoming on par with Hollywood film industry

Destiny 2

Launched on Sept 6th

Became top selling game of the year so far

Often overlooked as cultural industry

Average user is 33 years old in Canada

More women are playing 52-48 split in favour of men (Canada)

Employs over 20,000 people in Canada

Console Industry

Console dominated by 3 companies

oNintendo: for younger gamers

oSony: for serious gamers

oMicrosoft: has been going after Sony for years

Subscriptions becoming to be more important to console makers

oIe. Playstation+ has over 20 million subscribers paying about $60 a month

to get a library of games, can play people online, added value features

This part of industry may be starting to come under pressure as people can now

play video games on tablets, phones, etc.

Game publishers

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all produce games

In most cases, game publishers are independent companies distributing games

that play across multiple platforms

Game production is labour intensive, time consuming and risky

Development and licensing

Can cost 10 to 30 million dollars and take 3 years to develop a game

10% of the games make 90% of the profits

Like proven entities like Hollywood (Madden, Simpsons etc)

Very hard industry, most of games will fail

40 of top 200 selling games worked on at least partly in Canada

2.36 billion dollars spent on Canadian production in 2014

Canada is 3rd most successful country in world at producing video games

Majority of Canadian game developers are financially insecure and unknown

BioWare and Dreamcatcher have been success stories (BioWare purchased by EA !)

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20 billion dollars in sales in united states. 72% of american households play computer or video games. One of the fastest entertainment industries in world! Becoming on par with hollywood film industry. Became top selling game of the year so far. Average user is 33 years old in canada. More women are playing 52-48 split in favour of men (canada) Console dominated by 3 companies: nintendo: for younger gamers, sony: for serious gamers, microsoft: has been going after sony for years. Subscriptions becoming to be more important to console makers: ie. Playstation+ has over 20 million subscribers paying about a month to get a library of games, can play people online, added value features. This part of industry may be starting to come under pressure as people can now play video games on tablets, phones, etc. Nintendo, sony and microsoft all produce games. In most cases, game publishers are independent companies distributing games that play across multiple platforms.

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