GAMING INDUSTRY

The gaming industry is an economical sector that revolves around the marketing, development and sales of all video games across the world. This industry in particular employs thousands of jobs across the country and also worldwide. In the mid-1970s, the computer and video game industries have grown excessively from focused markets to mainstream.

a decade before, the US home video game market was worth $7 billion (1994) and $4.7 billion (1990) before that. This period coincided with the arcade renaissance, when US arcades generated $7 billion in 1994, therefore the total US market was worth $14 billion in 1994. The total worldwide market was worth $20.8 billion in 1994, equivalent to over $32 billion with 2012 inflation.

Size, Shape and Structure

Examples of some companies within this sector

TreyarchTreyarch was founded in 1996. this company is originated in America and grew excessively into a world wide mainstream gaming industry. This gaming organization was founded by two men known as Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü. Treyarch has won many awards for their world wide success in titles such as Call Of Duty: World At War, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 1&2. In 2001 Treyarch was taken over by Activision. Also like Treyarch, Activision is an American gaming company that produces video games. Activision was the worlds first independent developer of video games and was founded in 1979. They also distribute video games on video game consoles worldwide.

RockstarRockstar is a video game company that is originated in the US, New York City. It is mostly known for it’s popular gaming series Grand theft auto, which is a renowned worldwide success. Rockstar is owned by an American publisher called ‘’Take-Two Interactive’’, They also own the company 2K Games. They also specialize in the fields of gaming as well as in the field development. Take-Two is a company owned by Strauss Zelnick, also it is a Public sector company.

Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts (EA) was founded in 1982. This is a gaming Company originated in America, It distributes games worldwide. EA has many gaming series, it’s most notable one is the FIFA series which is considered the best sports gaming series in the world today by many people around the world.

Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a worldwide video game publisher and developer based in the country of France. There headquarters are located at Montreuil, France. Ubisoft has also alongside its games has created its very own film division known as Ubisoft film division which creates shows and films based on the games they develop and create. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal in Canada, which currently employs roughly 2,100 people.

Naughty DogNaughty Dog is was firstly founded as an independent developer in 1986 by Jason Rubin. This American video game developer is based in Santa Monica, California. The studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Naughty Dog developed a lot of games including well known titles such as, Crash Bandicoot, Uncharted and the last of us.

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How does the gaming industry earn their money?

The gaming industry rely on the amount of people that buy and play their games to earn their money. The first most important stage for a gaming industry to earn there money is to have as many sales as possible. The second is add-on e.g. ps3 have an online store accessible from the console where you can by games digitally rather than disk and you can get hold of extra features on your game for extra cost, in other words if there is a game where you happen to lack coins, then you can just go on the store and purchase coins for money. There is a lot of competition in the gaming industry and this consists of the two or three games being in the same genre. E.g.

- Call of duty and Battlefield

- FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer

- Grand theft auto and Saint rows

SynergySynergy is when something in the real world is used for another project of some sort. When two different things from different groups form in one to make something real.

There are many types of synergy in many types of games. In Grand Theft Auto there is various amount of synergy.

One example is there are many landmarks and building in los Angeles that is used in Grand Theft Auto’s map called Los Santos.

Los Santos is based in Vinewood which is known to be a replica of Hollywood. Another synergy in Grand Theft Auto is the music listened to on the radio in cars. The music in Grand Theft Auto is from real artists such as Rihanna and Asap Rocky.