What is it about?
In less than three decades the entertainment software industry has emerged as a huge industry, with sales larger than Hollywood movie box office sales. Yet, little is known about this industry. Stereotypes about the industry may not be correct. This paper seeks to address this knowledge gap. The paper identifies what is known, and what needs to be known. The paper reviews the literature and adds data from the most recent reports available. The literature has been slow to address this industry. It has not even been clear what to call this industry. (Some people still call it the video game industry.) The most basic marketing issues still need to be researched, i.e. customer benefits sought and segmentation. A typology of game genres is proposed.
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Why is it important?
This article is the first overview of the entertainment software industry from a marketing perspective.
Perspectives
Playing computer games has been a hobby of mine, so I could write this paper as a marketing expert and by virtue of 'deep immersion' in the phenomenon (i.e., I play the games a lot).
Assoc. Prof. Frank Alpert
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Entertainment software: suddenly huge, little understood, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, January 2007, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/13555850710720920.
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