Lo3: Game idea pre-research data

• Current sales revenue
• Markets entered
• Successful audience groups
• Developer & Publisher

Skyrim:

Since November 11, ZeniMax announced they had shipped 10 million units of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and have made $650 million in revenue across all three platforms.

ZeniMax mentioned that for PC the game outsold all other PC games by the factor of over three to one in the first month of its release. The game received over two dozen GOTY awards and became the most played game of 2011 according to Raptr. However for the PS3 platform the  version is "plagued with innumerable bugs" making the game practically unplayable. Developed by Bethesda Games Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Distributed by Bethesda Softworks in retail and Steam online. The engine used for the game is Creation engine including Havok physics. Audience is primarily men and women aged 16-24 as it has some themes more suitable for a young adult  such as violence. During the first day of release, Steam showed over 230,000 people laying Skyrim concurrently. In the first week of release, Bethesda stated that 7 million copies of the game had been shipped to retailers worldwide, and that total sales through the following wednesday were expected to generate $450 million.

Pokémon:

Over the las decade the franchise of Pokémon had generated $30 billion worldwide. Not just through the video games but the cartoons and trading cards. The role playing game was developed Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. First released in Japan on September 18th, 2010 and was released in Europe on March 4th, 2011. Black and white sold five million copies as of January 2011, making it one of the best selling DS games to date. In March 2013, the combined sales of the game reached 15.42 million. The game has a massively varied audience and therefore is appropriate for people of all ages.


Sims:

The Sims is a casual real life simulation series developed EA & Maxis, published by Electronic Arts. The original sims was first released February 4th 2000. As of March 22nd 2002; The Sims franchise had sold over 2 million copies and is the best selling PC franchise in history. The Sims was released for Microsoft Windows in February 2000. The game uses Isometric Projection and features open-ended simulation of the daily activities of one or more virtual persons (sims).






FarmVille:

In 2009 FarmVille was the most popular game on Facebook, since then the game has drastically fallen in popularity and is ranked forty-forth most popular game by Daily Active users. The game was developed by Zynga using the engine Flare 3D.