![]() The industry grew quickly during the golden age of arcade video games from the late 1970s to early 1980s, but suffered from the crash of the North American video game market in 1983 due to loss of publishing control and saturation of the market. ![]() In 1972 came the iconic hit arcade game Pong, and the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey. The first consumer video game was the arcade video game Computer Space in 1971. The first video game prototypes in the 1950s and 1960s were simple extensions of electronic games using video-like output from large room-size computers. Video games are classified into a wide range of genres based on their type of gameplay and purpose. More recently, the industry has expanded onto mobile gaming through smartphones and tablet computers, virtual and augmented reality systems, and remote cloud gaming. Video games are defined based on their platform, which include arcade video games, console games, and personal computer (PC) games. Video games are often augmented with audio feedback delivered through speakers or headphones, and sometimes with other types of feedback, including haptic technology. Some computer games do not always depend on a graphics display, for example text adventure games and computer chess can be played through teletype printers. This feedback mostly commonly is shown on a video display device, such as a TV set, monitor, touchscreen, or virtual reality headset. Make no mistake, the worlds of music, video games, AV and the blockchain are becoming irreversibly entwined with the separate threads ever harder to define.Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device – such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device – to generate visual feedback. The Chinese giant has a stake in music ownership (including Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group), streaming platforms (including Spotify), multiple video games studios (including Fortnite creator Epic) to highlight just a few of more than 600 investments worldwide. ![]() Perhaps it’s Tencent that has set the marker. It seems that the whole music and entertainment industry is trying to define its phygital (physical and digital) identity together with the big tech companies. The latter poached Xbox engineers and is in the development stages of a game console. In William Shakespeare’s words: the plot has thickened. Meta is also in the game: It just revealed “a giant new AI supercomputer to shape the metaverse” and, according to the WSJ, poached over a hundred employees from MS’s HoloLens development teams and Apple. The real deal with Verdu is that, apart from his EA experience, he brings to the table priceless insight into Meta’s metaverse blueprint. House of Mouse rival Netflix – which has just acquired a video game studio – has already tapped into EA’s knowledge base by recruiting Mike Verdu. “Make no mistake, the worlds of music, video games, AV and the blockchain are becoming irreversibly entwined with the separate threads ever harder to define.” EA Sports would be a great acquisition that would increase market share and add gaming to Disney+. It would also make sense for Disney to buy EA, who signed a 10-year exclusive development deal around the StarWars. The other players in the streaming wars need to make a move as well. Sony’s portfolio includes music, film and TV content, gaming and VR equipment, alongside equity in an array of Web3 companies – a perfect fit for Amazon, who has more than enough money to buy Sony and steaming wars to win. ![]() PlayStation’s games are hosted on AWS (Amazon’s cloud services), Microsoft Azure’s rival. The chatter around Sony’s response to the acquisition suggests that it will buy EA Games (who are a part of Microsoft’s Game Pass) to maintain its dominance in the gaming market and diminish Microsoft’s gaming offering.Ī possibility that was not considered was for Amazon to buy Sony. The next logical move would be for Microsoft to add exclusive AV content as an expansion of its Game Pass and add video streaming to Xbox on top of Spotify’s audio integration – a pre-emptive move against Netflix, which just added gaming to the AV sub fee and a better value proposition than its rival, Sony’s PlayStation. Meanwhile, the Concord Original’s team could develop premium AV content based on Call of Duty and develop Minecraft into a multiverse that goes head-to-head with the likes of DC or Marvel. Concord’s assets could be used to revive the Rock Band and Guitar Hero titles. ![]() Activision could build Oz in the metaverse and create a P2E (play to earn) game that would take players on a trip down the yellow brick road, collecting NFTs to gain entrance to a Kidz Boop performance of The Wizard of Oz. ![]()
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