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Video Game Industry
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A significant segment of the leisure economy spanning both the service-providing tertiary sector and the knowledge-intensive quaternary sector, encompassing the development, publishing, marketing, distribution and monetization of video games.
Facts
SectorEntertainment and technology 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
Free-to-play, offering a game at no upfront cost and monetizing through in-game purchases, is a dominant business model in the video game industry.
The Nintendo Switch is one of the video game industry's best-selling hybrid console platforms, released in 2017.
PlayStation is one of the video game industry's best-selling console platforms, in production since 1994.
Video game development has driven and intersects heavily with the broader technology industry's hardware advances.
Companies In Industry
A major video game publisher; classified in the atlas video-game-industry.
A major video game publisher; classified in the atlas video-game-industry.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Video Game Industry
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The video game industry is a significant segment of the leisure sector, straddling the tertiary sector, which provides services to people, and the quaternary sector, which focuses on knowledge-intensive activities such as research and technological development.
1. Wikipedia, Video Game Industry
WikipediaAssociated With: Technology Industry, Industry overview sectionQuote, Associated With: Technology Industry, Industry overview section
The video game industry has played an important role in improvement of computer hardware.
1. Wikipedia, Video Game Industry
1. Wikipedia, Video Game Industry
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