Week 5 “Case Analysis: Video Game Console Industry in 2012” Grantham University BA490 Business Policy and Strategy Case Analysis: Video Game Console Industry in 2012 Page 1 Executive Summary The video game console industry is a very competitive segment. This segment requires a keen eye on product development as well as strategic product marketing and a rather large logistics arm to ensure rapid distribution to targeted areas. Video game industry in the US‚ which
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in the video game console industry? Do a five-force analysis to support your answer. Which of the five competitive forces is strongest? Which is weakest? Would you characterize the overall strength of competition in video game consoles as fierce‚ strong‚ moderate to normal or weak? Why? What forces are driving changes in the video game console industry? Are these driving forces acting to make the industry more or less competitively intense? Are the driving forces acting to make the industry more or
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Case 11 - Competition in Video Game Consoles: The State of the Battle for Supremacy in 2008 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What are the strategy-shaping business and economic characteristics of the console segment of the video game industry? What is the industry like? The video game industry is the economic sector involved with the development‚ marketing and sale of video games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide. It includes video game consoles‚ game
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creates video games and game consoles. Nintendo is the creator of the Game Boy‚ Super Nintendo‚ Nintendo DS‚ Nintendo 64‚ Nintendo GameCube and of course the Wii. Nintendo is only one of the few companies that create gaming systems‚ and is in constant competition with Sony (PlayStation) and Microsoft (Xbox). Nintendo’s revenues in 2009 were $19‚308.1 million‚ with a net income of $2‚930.8 million. 1. What are the defining business and economic characteristics of the video game console industry
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Nintendo strong ? 9 2.3.1 Brand elements 8 2.3.2 Marketing Mix 8 2.4 Associations 9 2.5 Ten Keys to a strong brand 9 3. BRAND ARCHITECTURE 10 3.1. Brand portfolio 8 3.1.1 Consoles 8 3.1.1.1 Wii 8 3.1.1.2 Wii U 8 3.1.1.3 Nintendo DS Family 8 3.1.2 Games 8 3.1.3 Characters 8 3.2 Typology of branding structures 9 3.3 Dynamics in brand structures 9 3.4 The key principles for brand structures 9 3.5 The end of local brands 9 4. ADVERTISING
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GBA 687 Hong-Chin Chen Competition in Video Game Consoles: The State of the Battle for Supremacy in 2008 1. What are the strategy-shaping business and economic characteristics of the console segment of the video game industry? What is the industry like? 1-1 Segmentation: The industry was segmented into console hardware‚ console software (both sales and rentals)‚ handheld hardware‚ handheld software (both sales and rentals)‚ PC software (both sales and rentals)‚ broadband‚ interactive
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Company Analysis: Nintendo released a kind of video game player that is played at home called Wii in 2006‚ but it has been available in 7th December 2007 in market. Nintendo has founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi on in September 1889 in Kyoto‚ Japan. Nintendo has 21 subsidiaries and 8 affiliates and also a common deponent in Video games industry. Its brand was established for the family entertainment. Nintendo’s history is a company for video games and toys with the reason for serve entertainment for
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Nintendo Case Study 1. Imagine that you are charged with designing a successor to the Wii. Briefly describe the new-product strategy you might use. The Nintendo is having a lot of growth‚ since it has already proved by selling more consoles compared to its competitors Sony and Microsoft. The Wii is now targeting its customers not only the teenagers‚ but also the entire family community. As a design successor for Nintendo Wii‚ it would be better to design a product that suits the entire family
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Analysis of Video Game Console Industry Threat of Substitutes: The main substitute for a video game console would be a personal computer. They can both be used for playing different types of video games and be used for entertainment. The threat of this substitute edging out video game consoles is very low‚ because they are not completely similar. If anything‚ video game consoles are edging out personal computers in the gaming industry. The threat of substitutes in the video game is not very
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5 forces analysis of the video game console industry a. Rivalry among competing sellers There are lots of game console companies all over the world‚ but the main competitors who dominated the industry is only three: Nintendo、Sony、Microsoft. The switch cost of buyers is low because with the maturing of the industry‚ the main competitors are competing by innovating and offering service similar to competitors. And there are only three main competitors in the industry; the limit of choice reduces
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