Introduction to different markets

Hello everybody!!!

Now, let's have a look to what is very interesting for a lot of men on earth : video games!
First, this market might be divided in two parts :

• Consoles and portables
• PC

On the one hand, consoles market has been discovered and strongly developed at the beginning by Nintendo, with another competitor, Sega (now disappeared as constructor). Nowadays, two actors came enlarge the offer : Sony and Microsoft. Each company sells one "home console" :

• Nintendo : Gamecube
• Sony : Playstation 2
• Microsoft : X box

In addition, portables exist too and this market is, for me, the most dynamic especially those last months. Only two actors are important to know (Nokia with N-Gage made a flop to my mind)

• Nintendo : Dual Screen
• Sony : Playstation portable

On the other hand, you can play to video games with a PC. The difference with console's market from a studio of development's point of view would be "there's no point buying a licence to develop my games", and from a customer's point of view "it is most expensive!". Actually, there's not a PC configuration recommended to have for playing : the best engine for playing will be always the one with components at state of the art.

However, even if those two markets are different because engines are not technicaly the same, we will see later that this segment exists also because games, so the offer, is not the same. Customers targeted may be the opposite according to the nature of the game.

Here is the end of my introduction!

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