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CTAC11 4/17/07 14:01 Page 185 case 11 Rivalry in Video Games At the beginning of 2007, the world video games industry was entering a new and unusual...
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CTAC11 4/17/07 14:01 Page 185
case 11 Rivalry in Video Games
At the beginning of 2007, the world video games industry was entering a new and unusual stage of its development. For 11 years the industry had been dominated by Sony, whose PlayStation had accounted for well over half of world console sales during the previous two product generations. However, in the new generation of video game consoles, an entirely new situation was emerging. As a result of its own missteps, Sony’s iron grip on the industry had been broken and the seventh generation of video consoles was shaping up into a three-way battle between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. The stakes were high. With each new generation of consoles, the industry had surpassed its previous sales peak (see figure 11.1). Industry forecasts suggested that the seventh generation machines would be no exception – worldwide sales of video games hardware (consoles and handheld players) and software was estimated at around $24 billion in 2006, of which software accounted for around 60%. The market was expected to be bigger in 2007 – especially for hardware. For the three main players in the industry, the key issue was how revenues and profits would be split among them. The evidence of the past was that the video game consoles tended to be a “winner-take-all” industry where customers gravitated towards the market leader. The result was that one company tended to establish a market share of over 60% of the market and scooped the major part of the industry profit pool (see table 11.1). However, for all of the three leading players, there was more at stake than the lure of profits from the new generation of video game consoles. For Nintendo, the situation was relatively simple. Video games were Nintendo’s sole business. It’s Wii console launched in November 2006 was widely regarded as the last throw of the dice for Nintendo in the console market – with several billion dollars spent on development and marketing, Nintendo had to achieve market success to remain a viable player; otherwise it would need to retreat to the hand-held video game market, which it dominated. For Sony and Microsoft, the situation was Copyright © 2008 Robert M. Grant 185
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RIVALRY IN VIDEO GAMES
FIGURE 11.1 Worldwide unit sales of video game consoles by product generation 40 32–64 bit (e.g. PlayStation) 30 Millions
20
10
4 bit (e.g. Atari 2600)
8 bit (e.g. NES)
128 bit 256 bit (e.g. PS2) (e.g. XBox 360)
16 bit (e.g. Sega Genesis)
0 1980
1990
2000
2006
TABLE 11.1 Worldwide sales of video game consoles by platform Second generation Nintendo –
Third generation NES: 60m
Fourth generation
Fifth generation
Super NES: N-64: 32.9m 49m MegaDrive/ Sega – Master Saturn 9.3m System: 13m Genesis: 29m – – Sony – PlayStation: 100m – – – Microsoft – NEC Atari 7800: 3DO: 1.2m Others Atari 2600 TurboGrafx: Fairfield Channel
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