VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER

THE ROLE OF A VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER

• A publisher manufactures all copies of the game.

• The provide downloadable content (DLC) which can be done through the
PlayStation network and the Xbox market place. ]
• The publisher produces the covers, images information and manuals for the game.
• The publisher will often pay for a developer to make the game for them.
• Publishers are normally global company's as to publish a game it cost a lot of
money. Some times the publisher has its own developer this is called “in house”.
The publisher dues this as it make the overall cost cheaper for them self's
• As with book publisher or publishers of movies, video game publishers are
responsible for their product's manufacturing and marketing, including market
research and all aspects of advertising.
 Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, is an international developer, marketer, publisher
and distributor of video games. The company was Founded and
incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, EA was the
leading company of the early home computer games industry as
they were one of the few promoting the designers and EA's most successful products are sports games
programmers responsible for the games. Originally, EA was a published under its EA Sports label and games based on
home computing game publisher. In the late 1980s, the company popular movie like Harry Potter. EA’s top genres are
began developing games in-house. By 2001 EA had become one sporting and film. There main target audience for EA is
of the world's largest third-party publishers. 12 – 16 this is because the games have material younger
children shouldn’t see.

FIFA10 is a football game aimed at

teenagers age 10 – 16 this is
because this is the age were a
child participate in sport the
most. It is also aimed at people
who have a reasonable
disposable income as the game is
priced at £40.00. the game is also
amid at people who are
interested in football. As the
game simulates real football.
The Sims 3 is a life simulation game
which allows you to control the
characters life's and make there
decisions. This game has an age rating of
12 as there is content of a sexual nature
which should not be exposed to kids
younger than 12.
Harry potter is a fantasy game which
allows kids to play with in there own
world wear everything is magical.
The game is aimed at 5 – 12 year olds
as it is the age which will most relate
to this film and books. This a game
that is likely to be bought by a child
with its pocket money so the retail
price was £15.
Nintendo is located in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded on
September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. First started
making card games but soon realised the market was
changing and started to make video games and consoles Nintendo are most famous for there strategy and
there were also one of the only companies at the time to adventure games like Mario and Zelda.
manufacture, develop, and publish all of there work. Nintendo's target audience is very big the game
that they make are aimed at the whole family.

Wii fit is aimed at a wide range
of people mostly girls 13 – 18
and women 30 – 40. the
games main advertisement is
showing groups of people
playing the game and the fun
they are having .
Mario kart has all the
characters from the Mario
series of video games. This is
what make it such an appealing
game to everyone. It is aimed
at 6 – 12 year olds but is
enjoyed by people who like
racing games and those who
like Mario
Wii sports comes with the wii when
you buy it is a game aimed at
everyone as it is there to teach you
how to use your controller and get
used to how the wii works it can be
aimed at everyone as there are loots
of little popular game on the game
that you can chose to play or not to
play.
 Ubisoft ‘s most successful games are the action and adventure
games like assassins creed and splinter cell. . The target
UBISOFT audience for Ubisoft games is 12 – 18 this is because the
majority of the games have violence in them which is not
suitable for a younger age and normally set in a different world
Ubisoft is a video game publisher and developer, which stops the game from being aimed at a hire age group.
with headquarters in France. The company has a
worldwide presence with studios in 17 countries. As
of 2008, it was the third-largest independent video
game publisher in Europe. It was founded in 1986 by
the Guillemot family.

Assassins creed is an action and Splinter cell is a action game.

adventure game were you play
as a medieval assassin the aim is
to move from city to city
assonating people that is why
the game is aimed at 15 – 18
year old due to the violence with
in the game.
Your character is a us agent
who hast to complete him
mission. The game is aimed
at 15 – 18 year olds who
enjoy playing action games.
The game is set in ancient
Persia, this game is very
similar to assassins creed with
what you are able to do with in
the game. It is aimed at 12 – 16
as it is more of an adventure
game .