Sentences with phrase «console game market»

This has opened the opportunity for companies that previously could not enter the console game market to gain widespread distribution.

It might be hard to tell when looking at the sales figures for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest game machine, but the console game market is actually growing.

The retail market for Windows PC games gradually dried out in the early 2000s, as the benefit of not having to pay a platform holder to publish a game was offset by piracy, usability problems present with non-standard hardware and retailers like GameStop putting emphasis on the used console game market (GameStop does not buy and sell used Windows PC games).

That being said, the console games market is in a state of upheaval, so establishing a new game franchise requires a considerable amount of will, determination, and love.

Strategy games are healthy on the PC, but in the increasingly explosion - heavy world of mainstream console game marketing, anything so thought - intensive and potentially intimidating to casuals has been popular as arsenic cake for years.

The business environment surrounding the Group is in the midst of major changes, where consumer needs for content suitable to smart devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs are rapidly expanding, while the console game markets in North America and Europe are increasingly getting competitive and oligopolistic.

Maybe we should stop looking at it as a competition and see the three main console manufacturers as the stability and backbone of the console games market.

Not exact matches

The overall games market will continue climbing to $ 83 billion by 2016, but mobile and online will increasingly make up the lion's share after surpassing consoles and PCs this year.

Nintendo (ntdoy) on Friday priced its first console in about four years above market expectations, disappointing investors and clouding its prospects of winning back gamers who have shifted from consoles to smartphones.

That has led to a flourishing market for games with quirkier sensibilities — not just the expensive, gory and violent shooters that have become the bread and butter of home consoles.

If you're in the market for a new game console — and you're not a crazy person like me who buys every game console, regardless of logic — you're looking for one to serve as many of your wants as possible.

Turtle Beach Corporation, the market leader in console video game headsets, has over the years developed audio technology that enables gamers to hear soft video game sounds such as footsteps around the corner and gun reloads off in the distance.

Now, smartphones and tablets are quickly approaching the resolution and computing power of today's consoles, and that's opened up a whole new market for games.

Video game maker Activision Blizzard announced on Monday plans buy «Candy Crush Saga» creator King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion, Reuters reported, as the heavyweight of console and PC gaming makes a major push into the faster - growing mobile market.

Innovation and creating new markets: When Microsoft launched the original Xbox console back in 2001, it was the unwanted newcomer in the video game industry.

There's a vast gulf between the culture surrounding major console games like «Call of Duty» (which are largely marketed towards young men) and the culture surrounding massively popular mobile games (which are often marketed at mobile phone users of all genders).

Christine Arrington, senior analyst for games at IHS Technology, says that while Apple TV isn't worrying the console market just yet, it could eventually establish itself as a real player in that space.

And as the recent, technically troubled launch of publisher / developer Blizzard's record - selling Diablo III for PC suggests, it isn't clear that the industry has the database and server muscle to handle multiple AAA games (such as Call of Duty) being sold digitally for the much larger console market.

Other big companies such as Microsoft, Activision Publishing, and Capcom have been investing in growing the console market with games such as Halo 5, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Street Fighter IV.

The floodgates to China's gaming market have opened with the lift of a 14 - year ban on the manufacture and sale of video game consoles.

The online game distributor made noise in 2013 with a promise to revolutionize the gaming market by jumping from PCs to the living room through open - source consoles featuring a touch - pad - equipped controller.

In its first 10 months on the market, it became the fastest - selling game console in U.S. history, and the company expects to sell 14 million units by its first anniversary.

From 1999 through 2001, Len's team pioneered RealNetworks entry into non-PC markets, developing products and technology integration agreements with Nokia mobile phones, Sony PlayStation game consoles, and numerous television set - top - boxes.

There are potential areas of growth, including increasing the tie ratio between games and consoles, which will improve as platform libraries (games) grow, and accessory sales, which will depend on a myriad of factors, including the continued push towards new market opportunities (e.g., toy - based games).

Canned corporate optimism aside, toys - to - life in the style of Infinity and Skylanders is highly complicated, and the casual market on consoles is under the gun more than ever before thanks to mobile games.

With Overwatch being developed for the console from the get - go, Blizzard could potentially expand the market for their games.

Strategy games may be a niche market on console, but Tethered genuinely has its heart in the right place.

While many stores are reportedly sold out — forcing fans to shell out higher prices on the secondary market if they can not wait to get the new console — the original retail price of the basic unit (white, 8 GB memory) is $ 300, while a deluxe set (black, 32 GB, includes GamePad charging cradle and NintendoLand game) retails for $ 350.

Even when not announcing a new console, Sony and Microsoft frequently use major AAA titles to push the marketing of their systems, even if the title isn't an exclusive or the developers of said game have their own panel.

The Metal Gear series began life on the MSX home computer / console hybrid, a platform with almost zero presence in the U.S.. So, for the American market, Konami had the game reworked for the country's favorite console, the NES.

It's always hard for me to justify buying a new console, especially one that's marketed to more «hard - core» gamers.

The most important reason why Gravel doesn't have a Switch version is due to the fact that the development of the game has started when the Nintendo console was not on the market.

Despite the Genesis's head start, much larger library of games, and lower price point, [34] the Genesis only represented an estimated 60 % of the American 16 - bit console market in June 1992, [35] and neither console could maintain a definitive lead for several years.

However, there are some games that shine and do a fantastic job of differentiating the console from the rest of the market, demonstrating ways to play that aren't possible on other systems.

The Nintendo Switch is not the most powerful console on the market, but that doesn't mean it's incapable of running beautiful games.

After all, Scorpio will be the most powerful console on the market for at least 6 months or perhaps way longer, but once the two systems find themselves in head - to - head contention, Microsoft is going to need to make a really strong case for why gamers should go with the Scorpio over the PS5.

Releasing old reissues for 80 dollars a pop for games that are 10 - 30 years old is a joke and for everyone wondering if the smash bros isnt a port, do you really think they would have forgotten to mention it was a new game if it was a new game???? That would be the centerpiece of marketing but the fact they left it out is obvious its the same game they sold you on the last console which also had a couple new games and mostly weak releases that made no one but the system.

According to her, there is a clear demand for «proper JRPGs» on home consoles, and this game is there to tap in that unfulfilled market.

Snipperclips feels like the start of something great, Splatoon continues to shine and the option to play the best Mario Kart game to date on the go are all big plusses for a console that feels like a capable home machine as well as the most impressive handheld on the market.

However, since the survival crafting title launched its PvP mode for free back in September 2017, Fortnite Battle Royale has witnessed massive success as a PUBG competitor, not least because it beat Bluehole to the console market as the first free Battle Royale game on PS4 and Xbox One.

It's clear there's a market here for Pokemon games on the console.

Innumerable clones from virtually every other game publisher followed, flooding arcades and eventually the 16 - bit home consoles until the coming of one - on - one fighting games pulled the market in another direction...

Japanese console gamers didn't shine to first - person puzzler Portal 2, which only managed to sell about 13,000 copies in its first week on the market.

The company will strengthen its focus on console software, which is its key business segment, because it expects «an increasingly mature market of home video games» in the near future.

During the nine months ended December 31, 2017, our industry saw major growth in the market for home video games, both in terms of software as well as hardware, due to greater penetration of the PlayStation 4 home video game console and the strong performance of the new Nintendo Switch game console.

The game does a very nice job of making this one of the most realistic rally car games on the console market.

There are myriad reasons people like to throw around for that dark time: Microsoft focusing on the Xbox and paying less attention to the PC, Windows XP breaking compatibility with a bunch of older games from the «90s, fewer companies in the CPU / GPU markets, the increasing popularity of PC - centric genres (like shooters) on consoles, the fact that consoles actually provided the PC with some reasonable competition in terms of graphics, the rise of DRM, Steam looking like garbage in its infancy.

Ever since handheld gaming consoles hit the market, gamers of all ages realized that this meant that gaming which was once restricted to sitting at the desk, on the couch, or on the floor could now be done in the most comfortable of places: in bed.

Steam has perfected the art of the sale when it comes to making sure games are both affordable and accessible, but neither of the big three players in the console market have come close to offering what it can do.

Gamers can't be sure if it'll be a home console, a handheld, or perhaps even both, with Nintendo instead focusing its marketing on the Wii U and 3DS for the foreseeable future....