However, comparisons with the TV and film business don’t entirely hold up-digital subscriptions will not translate to video games easily.
If subscription services were successful, power could shift from game studios and publishers to a few digital distribution giants with massive scale and market share-analogous to the rise of Netflix in digital video. of a prospective Amazon offering, have caused widespread industry speculation that video-game distribution could move from the still-dominant à la carte model toward Netflix-style subscriptions. As changing demographics and increased publicity encourage new generations of video game fanatics, accessing online games across multiple platforms, we analyse how the gaming industry has anchored the UK economy and unlocked job growth in a period of uncertainty.Recent announcements of new game-distribution services from Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tencent, as well as reports 1 Seth Schiesel, “Amazon pushes into making video games, not just streaming their play,” New York Times, April 2, 2020,. The Robert Walters Tech Series, in partnership with VacancySoft, tracks the tech sectors driving UK job growth. In a world where blockbuster premiers, national sporting events, and hospitality and leisure were all vetoed – gaming further infiltrated the daily lives of multiple generations as one of the only accessible lockdown past-times. Since the dawn of the digital age, the online gaming industry has been taking the world by storm – not least during Covid-19 where all around the world, citizens were asked to stay at home for months on end.
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