The games industry what you need to know
Organisational statures in the games industry
Organisational statures of the gaming industry come in 5 different parts this is simply the process that a product is made these process include development, publishing, manufacturing, distribution and retail.
Development stage
Production of the product takes place in this stage, at this stage games are create and programmed. Developers can work on a range of different high end and low end projects, developers themselves can range in many different sizes group wise housing hundreds of employed and producing serval large titles so basically the development team consists of many members within a small group.
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Rockstar North is known for games in other areas and genres. However Rockstar North was once known under another name ‘DMA design’. DMA design officially started in1987 with its first game ‘Menace’ and it ended in the early years of 2000 proving to be very successful and ending on a high note with grand theft auto …show more content…
The manufacturing of a product is require to have a license in order for the process to continue when making console games however three manufacturers maintain strict control without all areas of the product being created and made. Publishers have their own development team have a greater advantage compared to those who do not. Licensing’s costs usually carries tough costs depending on the profit sharing which is built into the contract of the rights in which the owners hold. In the past years, publishing has more or less became concentrated meaning that there has had a drastic decrease in publishers which as a result there as become less competitors in leading with this it has put extreme pressure on developers as they have had to take over the job of publishers and still have to maintain their own job roles also, in saying this over the recent years disruptions within the industry has lowered the costs and as a result more opportunities for self-publishers have come to be a demand within the industry but keeping in mind that the bigger companies do still have a large percentage of certain in the