As of September 30, the market capitalization of the world's 50 largest listed gaming companies combined exceeded 23.9 trillion yuan, of which 19 were from China, 13 from Japan, 5 from South Korea, 5 from the United States, 2 from France, 2 from Sweden, and the rest were one each from Poland, Singapore and Israel.
Divided by segment:
Diamond ranks
Game manufacturers in this segment, the business idea mainly revolves around mobile games, page games, small investment, stable return on cost, different manufacturers are good at different directions, MOBA, card cultivation, SLG, racing, shooting Each segment has a long operating time and stable return products, small and medium-sized manufacturers are more likely to rely on differentiated, resource-focused play in their own subdivisions to live enough moisturizing, without having to fight with big manufacturers in the hot track.
Like Japanese game manufacturer GungHo, the first team of only 4 people to develop the mobile game "Dragon Lost City", after its release on February 20, 2012, it quickly became a success once it was listed, and it collected more than 6 billion US dollars in 6 years of listing, and it is still in operation today, and has been operating for more than 10 years, and its core gameplay is just the elimination of the ball.
Like the domestic manufacturer Sanqi Interactive Entertainment, known as the "page game overlord", it has created a mobile game track by porting the legendary page game gameplay to the mobile terminal, and its market value even far exceeds that of Ubisoft, which has developed a number of 3A masterpieces.
Star Shine Rank
Rising to the Star Glory level is not only a simple requirement for game manufacturers to be rich, but also to have the strength to develop 3A masterpieces or the ability to stably output high-quality projects, such as South Korea's NEXON and NC Soft, the well-known "Go-Kart", "Dungeons and Warriors", "MapleStory", "Counter-Strike Online", "Sword Spirit", "Aion Tower" are all from his hands, not only successful games, but also can continue to launch players' favorite games.
Although the strength of game manufacturers in this segment is already very strong, there is a more terrifying existence than them, that is, they can launch phenomenal and epoch-making products.
The rank of king
RockstarGames is well known in the gaming circle, known as the pioneer and master of open-world games, and its fame is far greater than that of parent company Take-Two.
R star developed "GTA", "Red Dead Redemption" series of games has become the representative of open world games, R star's consistent style is to dare to invest huge funds ten years to sharpen a sword, and the final presentation is also with massive content, wonderful main story design, the ultimate polishing of details and strong gameplay epoch-making works, the work "GTA5" that has been out for 10 years has sold more than 175 million copies worldwide, if calculated according to the world's 7.5 billion people, 2 out of every 100 people have played " GTA5", which also gave birth to a series of memes - "R star production, must be a boutique", "Who is still buying GTA5? "Who hasn't bought GTA5?", "This game is too much of a loss to sell 49", all reflect the influence of the GTA series and players' praise of R stars.
Souls is a game genre that has been heating up in recent years, characterized by high difficulty, extremely high art design, exquisite level design, and strange story design.
The founder is the developer of the "Dark Souls" series and "Elden Law Ring" Fromsoftware, its parent company is the Kadokawa Group, high story and rich connotation to bring a very high game experience is an important feature of FS Club's works, FS Club is extremely good at using fragmented narrative techniques in the work, fascinating, so that players can still taste after clearing the level, which also spawns a large number of "soul scientists" who want to drill through the entire ins and outs of their works.
If you want to ask players which game maker they love and hate, CDPR (full name CD Projekt), a game maker from Poland that created the famous "The Witcher" series of games and the famous "Cyberpunk 2077".
"The Witcher III" this award-winning game has promoted CDPR to the rank of king, the magnificent open world, grand narrative and a large number of picture details are loaded into this work, with the help of this work CDPR shows the outside world its extremely high level in character portrayal, world view creation, plot design, atmosphere creation, different mission directions and rich side quests, as well as detailed mini-games, etc. constitute the core competitiveness of the "The Witcher" series, even after two years after the launch of the game, CDPR still updated more than a dozen free DLCs and two large, cheap and high-quality expansions, a behavior that sent its reputation soaring.
But then "Cyberpunk 2077" in the early days of the release due to the low completion of the game and suffered a cliff decline in word of mouth, and then CDPR made a lot of improvements and fills in the game content, so that the main framework of the entire cyberpunk world began to be accepted by players, a cyberpunk wind blew, after the player actually played, the wind of "Cyberpunk 2077" has recovered, and now CDPR has released the first large-scale expansion of the game "Shadow of the Past", which once again proves itself in game design, He is highly accomplished in art design and world view building.
What has made players praise countless times is CDPR's level and sincerity in the localization design of the game, not simply adding subtitles and words in local languages, but spending a lot of time doing a lot of work to fully integrate the local and local languages, language habits, and cultures of the game, which is why the mid-match in the game "Cyberpunk 2077" will be called the best mid-match in history by domestic players.
For CDPR, players benefit from its product pricing and frequent discounts, and frantically try to save players' hearts when the work is not well received, all of which also make players affectionately call him "Polish stupid donkey".
T0 players: Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Tencent
If the player of the king rank is a pentagonal warrior, then the T0 level player is a higher-dimensional existence, which is reflected in the fact that the T0 level player not only has the game development strength of the king rank, but also has the strength to form the entire ecology.
If game manufacturers such as R Star and CDPR are shining points, then Microsoft, which has the XBOX platform, Sony of PlayStation, Nintendo of Switch, and Tencent, which has more than 1 billion users on its social platform, are those who will connect the dots.
These four companies hold the core platform of the ecosystem, coupled with strong financial resources, for the development strength, can be cultivated and filled by increasing investment or investment in mergers and acquisitions, you can see that Microsoft, Sony, Tencent have included many excellent game teams through investment and mergers over the years, such as Minecraft developer Mojang, Ace Studio Naughty Dog and supercell who developed "Clash of Clans", but it is very difficult to establish a platform, so many years have passed, the console platform is still the royal three.
For these four companies, it can only be said that the success of the game business depends only on whether they want to do it or not.
