Ok, after the short introduction of the last post, let’s start with the first part of our analysis.
In order to highlight the different strategies of the 3 competitors, it’s necessary to take a look at the market, analysing the key success factors of the whole sector and trying to understand which company got the best from each factor.
Of course:
- we are not going to say which strategy is the best one, at least not now;
- it’s likely that you will find something missing form my list. If so, please feel free to add your comments to this post.
I’ll proceed with an alphabetical order, simply because none of these factor can be considered better than the others: the secret is within the ability to put in place a COHERENT strategy, without the need to be the best in each sector.
BRAND
It’s a tautology, but the brand is important. 10 years ago, before the advent of the Playstation, we can say that Nintendo and SEGA were synonyms of “console videogames”. If you followed the link in my introductive post, you already know why SEGA is not on the scene anymore.
When Sony decided to “attack” the console market, they pushed on marketing, on brand valorisation, on advertising. They made a lot of investments to become popular in this market too. And they were successful.
The same did Microsoft 5 years ago, with their first XBOX.
Nintendo strategy was different and the result was that both the XBOX and the Playstation brand became really popular. Nintendo lost some of their popularity, but thanks to the portable console segment they were able to “survive”.
Now, in 2007, these 3 competitors can count on greats and strong brands, which makes really unlikely the arrival of new comers. Read more
Today we are going to begin a deep analysis of the videogames market. Being a really big and complex job, only one article is not enough: I will divide this document in many parts, hoping to attract your attention and make you happy to participate and send us your feedback.
Some numbers to help you in following the next articles.
Market size: “The global market in 2003 was over 21 billion of dollars” (Source: OECD), taking into consideration both pc, console, mobile and online gaming. Alone, the console segment is worth 15 billions of dollars.
Competitors: as we are going to focus on console manufacturers, we will consider the “big 3”: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.
The history so far: if you need to be updated on the whole story, I would suggest you to take a brief look at this link. In this analysis I will focus on the present. Read more
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I confess that I’m a bit excited, this being my first post for the new category “Marketing”.
My intention to introduce the technique of Article Marketing in an easy way, so that novices can learn something new and immediately think of ways to use this methods.
First of all: what is marketing?
Even if everyone has heard the word “marketing” at least once in their life, I like to remind one of the many definitions (very similar indeed) that you can find in book, dictionaries or web sites: “Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives”.
Please concentrate on the last part (“create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives”) and think about what happens everyday in the world wide web: Read more
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