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Its a fact that most people are better off nowadays than they were say 10 to 15 years ago. The richer we get the more the games market, and game and console producers, benifit. Recently, in the last six years or so, there have been many new consoles brought out onto the world market. There was the saturn, playstation, N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube and the X-Box. When consoles were first about there were not nearly as many of them and they were produced, mainly, by two producers. Ther was Service Games, which was shortend to SEGA in 1965, and Nintendo. There were other smaller companies who produced other consoles but none really took off. Lately the games industry has four main producers of consoles; SEGA (which recently announced its retirement from producing consoles), Nintendo and the relative newcomers SONY and Microsoft.
Why have we all of a sudden got two more producers of consoles on the market? The answer is simple. The market for games has massively increased over the last eight years and has become a multi-billion dollar industry. More companies want a piece of this money and we can see this with the introduction of the latest producer Microsoft. They wouldnt bother entering the console producing market if there wasnt any money in it because they are already in a multi-billion dollar computer software industry. Is this a thing we are going to see more in the years to come? Will more and more electrical companies enter the gaming market as it grows and grows?
There are many reasons for the growth in the market for games and in particular games consoles. One reason may be that other entertainment pastimes have fallen in popularity; for example, less people play board games nowadays and its a fact that kids stay indoors a lot more than they used to (maybe because of worried parents!?). All these things may contribute to the growth but i believe the main benifactor is MONEY. I know there is lots of equality in the world and there is a massive difference in annual incomes from person to person but it is clear that more economically developed countries are getting richer.
If more people are getting richer then more people can afford games consoles (ding - a light turns on in Billy Gates's head). People nowadays are buying two or three consoles. Where as before they may only have had one or none. It doesnt sound a lot to have one more console but if you think about it, you take your annual outgoings on games and times it by three. Thats quite a lot more money your lining the pockets of those fat-cats! This brings me back to my point i made earlier. I believe that it is possible for more and more companies to start making game consoles in the future. If people are buying two or three consoles now, in another ten years time who knows how many people will be able to afford! There is a downside to all of this though. If the companies producing the consoles and software really think people can afford more what are they going to do? Raise prices! The richer we get the more the prices may rise, and it probably not on a proportionate scale.
So my point is basically this question: Will the gaming world be better with more money and more comanies producing in it?
Thanks for reading
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Why have we all of a sudden got two more producers of consoles on the market? The answer is simple. The market for games has massively increased over the last eight years and has become a multi-billion dollar industry. More companies want a piece of this money and we can see this with the introduction of the latest producer Microsoft. They wouldnt bother entering the console producing market if there wasnt any money in it because they are already in a multi-billion dollar computer software industry. Is this a thing we are going to see more in the years to come? Will more and more electrical companies enter the gaming market as it grows and grows?
There are many reasons for the growth in the market for games and in particular games consoles. One reason may be that other entertainment pastimes have fallen in popularity; for example, less people play board games nowadays and its a fact that kids stay indoors a lot more than they used to (maybe because of worried parents!?). All these things may contribute to the growth but i believe the main benifactor is MONEY. I know there is lots of equality in the world and there is a massive difference in annual incomes from person to person but it is clear that more economically developed countries are getting richer.
If more people are getting richer then more people can afford games consoles (ding - a light turns on in Billy Gates's head). People nowadays are buying two or three consoles. Where as before they may only have had one or none. It doesnt sound a lot to have one more console but if you think about it, you take your annual outgoings on games and times it by three. Thats quite a lot more money your lining the pockets of those fat-cats! This brings me back to my point i made earlier. I believe that it is possible for more and more companies to start making game consoles in the future. If people are buying two or three consoles now, in another ten years time who knows how many people will be able to afford! There is a downside to all of this though. If the companies producing the consoles and software really think people can afford more what are they going to do? Raise prices! The richer we get the more the prices may rise, and it probably not on a proportionate scale.
So my point is basically this question: Will the gaming world be better with more money and more comanies producing in it?
Thanks for reading
g
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G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> Could you imagine if the console market changed from an oligopolistic market to a monopolistic.
I'm being pedantic but monopolisitic competition is different from the competition in a monopoly. The competition ideal is perfect competition, this is followed by monopolistic competition - a more real world version of perfect competition - and this is followed by oligopoly and monopoly.
It is possible for a firm with a monopoly to have low prices, however. Certain natural monopolies work most efficiently if only one firm is in control, for instance Railtrack couldn't be run by more than one company. Also a monopoly can be efficient where there is a threat of competition coming in. If there is a threat then prices have to be kept low to keep that threat from materialising as a competitor.
I think Nintendo are the companymost likely to hit the wall, but even then it's an outside chance, as they do not operate on the same scale as Sony and Microsoft. I think Sony or Microsoft would pretty much have to go out of business before they gave up in the console market, and there's not much chance of that.
> Could you imagine if the console market changed from an oligopolistic market to a monopolistic.
I'm being pedantic but monopolisitic competition is different from the competition in a monopoly. The competition ideal is perfect competition, this is followed by monopolistic competition - a more real world version of perfect competition - and this is followed by oligopoly and monopoly.
It is possible for a firm with a monopoly to have low prices, however. Certain natural monopolies work most efficiently if only one firm is in control, for instance Railtrack couldn't be run by more than one company. Also a monopoly can be efficient where there is a threat of competition coming in. If there is a threat then prices have to be kept low to keep that threat from materialising as a competitor.
I think Nintendo are the companymost likely to hit the wall, but even then it's an outside chance, as they do not operate on the same scale as Sony and Microsoft. I think Sony or Microsoft would pretty much have to go out of business before they gave up in the console market, and there's not much chance of that.
A5h1ey wrote:
> G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> does it really matter
> what its called? its top notch and thats all that matters
slllrrrpppp
ahhhhh that felt good ;)
> G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> does it really matter
> what its called? its top notch and thats all that matters
slllrrrpppp
ahhhhh that felt good ;)
G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> does it really matter what its called? its top notch and thats all that matters
slllrrrpppp
> does it really matter what its called? its top notch and thats all that matters
slllrrrpppp
does it really matter what its called? its top notch and thats all that matters
Tony wrote:
> A5h1ey wrote:
> hi tony, we have a mystery to be solved, why is SR called SR
> was it your vivid imagination or a love of port or another interesting
> reason
We started two magazines in 1988. One was called Confidential from
> Official Secrets (about adventures) and the other was called Special Reserve.
> We did struggle with the name, but that's what we decided upon, and it trips off
> the tongue quite nicely special is what we are all about. As you probably know,
> we are considering Special Direct instead as the guy who runs Cex registered the
> domain SpecialReserve.co.uk while we were running under the name reserve.co.uk.
could'nt you call yourself ukgames and then have a matching web address, or would that look too focused on games than other parts of the market
> A5h1ey wrote:
> hi tony, we have a mystery to be solved, why is SR called SR
> was it your vivid imagination or a love of port or another interesting
> reason
We started two magazines in 1988. One was called Confidential from
> Official Secrets (about adventures) and the other was called Special Reserve.
> We did struggle with the name, but that's what we decided upon, and it trips off
> the tongue quite nicely special is what we are all about. As you probably know,
> we are considering Special Direct instead as the guy who runs Cex registered the
> domain SpecialReserve.co.uk while we were running under the name reserve.co.uk.
could'nt you call yourself ukgames and then have a matching web address, or would that look too focused on games than other parts of the market
A5h1ey wrote:
> hi tony, we have a mystery to be solved, why is SR called SR was it your vivid imagination or a love of port or another interesting reason
We started two magazines in 1988. One was called Confidential from Official Secrets (about adventures) and the other was called Special Reserve. We did struggle with the name, but that's what we decided upon, and it trips off the tongue quite nicely special is what we are all about. As you probably know, we are considering Special Direct instead as the guy who runs Cex registered the domain SpecialReserve.co.uk while we were running under the name reserve.co.uk.
> hi tony, we have a mystery to be solved, why is SR called SR was it your vivid imagination or a love of port or another interesting reason
We started two magazines in 1988. One was called Confidential from Official Secrets (about adventures) and the other was called Special Reserve. We did struggle with the name, but that's what we decided upon, and it trips off the tongue quite nicely special is what we are all about. As you probably know, we are considering Special Direct instead as the guy who runs Cex registered the domain SpecialReserve.co.uk while we were running under the name reserve.co.uk.
Mystique wrote:
> *waits for the hundreds of brown nosers to cry out "hey tony,you haven't
> been here in a while!"*
this is a diplomatic way of saying exactly that
> *waits for the hundreds of brown nosers to cry out "hey tony,you haven't
> been here in a while!"*
this is a diplomatic way of saying exactly that
Mystique wrote:
> *waits for the hundreds of brown nosers to cry out "hey tony,you haven't
> been here in a while!"*
I am restricted to one minute per week on the forums.
> *waits for the hundreds of brown nosers to cry out "hey tony,you haven't
> been here in a while!"*
I am restricted to one minute per week on the forums.
hi tony, we have a mystery to be solved, why is SR called SR was it your vivid imagination or a love of port or another interesting reason
*waits for the hundreds of brown nosers to cry out "hey tony,you haven't been here in a while!"*
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