HA3 Task 4 Industry and Market Trends

Task 4

Industry and Market Trends

Produce an account of the current industry and market trends are within the games industry.

You are aiming to comprehensively explain current market trends in the games industry with reference to elucidated examples. You should be using subject terminology consistently and correctly.

First Person Shooters and Zombies seem to be the center of attention in the gaming industry. For example, Call of Duty is a first person shooter and is also the most popular game franchise of all time and also one of the best selling game franchises of all time. Some Call of Duty games such as the Call of Duty Black Ops series features zombies, which is a fan favorite, and Advanced Warfare, which is the newest title to the franchise, which also features exo-zombies. To date, the the Call of Duty franchise has sold over 100 million copies and grossed over $10 billion.

This video shows a youtuber by the name of TheSyndicateProject playing Call of Duty Zombies.



There are other game franchises that have also made the first person and zombie genres popular. Dead Island is a good example of this, as it has currently released 2 games, Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide, and is expecting a Dead Island 2 to release early 2015. Dead Island itself sold over 5 million copies.

This video shows the introduction to Dead Island, a very popular zombie killing game.