Video_Game_Industry – Daniel dos Reis

Microsoft To Offer TV Shows, Movies Through Xbox Live

Round Nr. 2 in the battle for the Multimedia Home Center Entertainment Market. That’s not a surprise that Microsoft starts to offer Video on Demand content. The Xbox360 is more than a simple Video Gamng System.

Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with a handful of Hollywood studios to sell TV shows and movies that can be downloaded through the software maker’s Xbox Live online video-game service and beamed straight onto television sets

The programming — most of it in standard-definition format and some in high-definition — will be available through the Xbox 360 console to any user of Xbox Live’s free or paid online service, which allows gamers with broadband connections to send text or voice messages to each other, and watch movie trailers and other product demonstrations.

Source: NBC10.com – Entertainment – Microsoft To Offer TV Shows, Movies Through Xbox Live

Die Wachstums Industrie der Zukunft? Videospiele!

October 10, 2005

Bei Businessweek gibt es einen aktuellen Artikel zu einer PWC Studie die den globalen Media Entertainment Markt untersucht. Hier die wichtigsten Informationen aus dem Artikel:

The global video game market, according to PWC, will increase from $25.4 billion in revenue in 2004 to almost $55 billion in 2009, growing at a 16.5 percent compound annual rate…
The growth of the console game market, the largest segment of the industry, is dependent on the cycle of new game consoles. …
The next generation of consoles, with their embedded online capabilities, will also have a positive effect on the demand for online games. The migration to broadband Internet connections will enhance the online gaming experience, spurring demand.
The replacement of current wireless telephone handsets with newer models capable of downloading games will be the major influence on the wireless sector.
The fastest growing region for video games, however, is believed to be EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), which is expected to increase by a compound annual rate of 19.1 percent from $6.0 billion in 2004 to $14.3 billion in 2009.

Bei der Aussage zur Entwicklung des Online Gamings, die angeblich durch die Breitband Penetration getrieben wird, könnte man auch auf die Idee kommen, das Ursache-Wirkungs Prinzip anders herum zu intepretieren. Ohne Content keine Nachfrage nach Breitband.

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Weitere Informationen aus der PWC Studie zum Xbox Live Dienst. Click here

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