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How PlayStation broke its hardware and active user records in Q4

Rhys Elliott

13 Feb 2025

Business Strategy

Netflix

TikTok

Sony released its financial results for calendar Q4 2024. Here are the high-level results: Sony generated revenues of $27.9 billion As always, its Game & Network Services (G&NS) Segment – PlayStation...

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The games market will grow by 4.6% in 2025 – in line with the global inflation rate

Rhys Elliott

31 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

Fandom

Games

We just published our flagship games report MIDiA Research’s Global Games Forecasts 2025–2031 and its accompanying dataset. What you need to know: The games market is mature , so double-digit growth...

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Are console platforms about to push smartphone-style subscription plans?

Rhys Elliott

17 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

Games

assassin’s creed

Diminishing returns on console generations, cash-strapped consumers, and increasing console prices might just open up a new pricing model for consoles – one in which consoles look increasingly like smartphones....

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Marketers, don't miss out on GTA 6

Rhys Elliott

31 Jul 2024

gta

grand theft auto

brands

Grand Theft Auto VI ( GTA 6 ) is due to launch in autumn 2026. It will be one of the century's biggest entertainment launches, and its impact will ripple through culture for years to come. Remember how...

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GTA 6 will solidify gaming's role at the heart of entertainment

Rhys Elliott

24 May 2024

take two interactive

grand theft auto vi

grand theft auto

Move aside, Barbenheimer and Taylor Swift. The decade’s defining moment in entertainment is coming. Grand Theft Auto ( GTA) VI is due to launch in autumn 2025, and it's set to be entertainment’s biggest...

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Grand Theft IP

Perry Gresham

23 Sep 2022

grand theft auto

leak

intellectual property

This week gaming entered leak season, with large amounts of content unexpectedly released for two major upcoming titles: Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA) and Diablo IV. GTA developer Rockstar Games confirmed...

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Play for the World – EA Aims to Fill Void via FIFA Stay and Play Cup

Alistair Taylor

16 Apr 2020

activity gap

broadcast

Brondby

In 2003, FIFA updated its primary logo to include the words ‘For the Game. For the World.’ Fast forward 17 years and governments around the world are instructing their citizens to stay inside. Now...

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The COVID Bounce: How COVID-19 is Reshaping Entertainment Demand

Mark Mulligan

27 Mar 2020

Amazon Music

Amazon Prime

Apple TV

The economic disruption and social dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is not evenly distributed. Some business face catastrophe, while others thrive. Across the entertainment industries the same...

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