Williamstown, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/18/2009 -- Datamonitor's Games Software in Western Europe industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Games Software industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation
* Provides textual analysis of the industry's recent performance and future prospects
* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry
* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics
* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume
* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market's competitive landscape

Why you should buy this report

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Market Definition

The games software market consists of the total revenues generated through the sale of console games and PC and Mac games. Console games includes the software that are used in the game console hardware like Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation, Xbox, Xbox 360. This also includes the software that is used in the wireless or portable handheld devices like Nintendo DS, mobile and personal digital assistants (pdas), Playstation Portable (pap) and Game Boy Advance.

This category excludes the revenue generated through the sales of game consoles and handheld devices. The PC and MAc games includes PC games and Mac games and excludes online games such as casual games, massively multi player online role play games (mmorg). The market is valued at retail selling price (RSP) with any currency conversions calculated using constant 2008 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report Europe is divided into Eastern Europe and Western Europe.

Eastern Europe is deemed to comprise of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, and the Ukraine.

Western Europe is deemed to comprise of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The Americas comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The global figure comprises the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Report Table of Contents:

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview
1.1 Market Definition
1.2 Research Highlights
1.3 Market Analysis
CHAPTER 2 Market Value
CHAPTER 3 Market Segmentation I
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation II
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis
5.1 Summary
5.2 Buyer Power
5.3 Supplier Power
5.4 New Entrants
Substitutes
5.5 Rivalry
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies
6.1 Electronic Arts
6.2 Activision Blizzard, Inc
6.3 UBI Soft Entertainment SA
6.4 Konami Corporation
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts
7.1 Market Value Forecast
CHAPTER 8 Macroeconomic Indicators
CHAPTER 9 Appendix
9.1 Methodology
9.2 Industry Associations
9.3 Related Datamonitor Research

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Western Europe Games Software Market Value: $ billion, 2004-2008
Table 2: Western Europe Games Software Market Segmentation I: % Share, by Value, 2008
Table 3: Western Europe Games Software Market Segmentation II: % Share, by Value, 2008
Table 4: Key Facts: Electronic Arts
Table 5: Key Financials: Electronic Arts
Table 6: Key Facts: Activision Blizzard, Inc
Table 7: Key Facts: UBI Soft Entertainment SA
Table 8: Key Facts: Konami Corporation
Table 9: Key Financials: Konami Corporation
Table 10: Western Europe Games Software Market Value Forecast: $ billion, 2008- 2013
Table 11: Western Europe Exchange Rate, 2004-2008

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