Games Consoles: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Games Consoles: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the games consoles industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Report Highlights

The global games consoles market generated total revenues of $9.7 billion in 2005, this representing a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -6% over the fiveyear period spanning 2001-2005.

Sony had the largest number of unit sales in the global games consoles market in 2005, the company sold 20.5 million consoles, equivalent to 47.5% of the market’s overall volume.

Looking forward, the market is forecast to accelerate its current performance, with an anticipated CAGR of 3.4% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the market to a value of $11.5 billion by the end of 2010.
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction 15
What is this report about? 15
Who is the target reader? 15
How to use this report 15
Definitions 16
CHAPTER 2 Global Games Consoles 17
Market Overview 17
Market Value 19
Market Volume 20
Market Segmentation 21
Market Share 22
Market Share 22
Competitive Landscape 23
Market Forecasts 25
CHAPTER 3 Games Consoles in Asia-Pacific 27
Market Overview 27
Market Value 29
Market Volume 30
Market Segmentation 31
Market Share 32
Competitive Landscape 33
Market Forecasts 35
CHAPTER 4 Games Consoles in Europe 37
Market Overview 37
Market Value 39
Market Volume 40
Market Segmentation 41
Market Share 42
Competitive Landscape 43
Market Forecasts 45
Macroeconomic Indicators 47
CHAPTER 5 Games Consoles in France 48
Market Overview 48
Market Value 50
Market Volume 51
Market Segmentation 52
Market Share 53
Competitive Landscape 54
Market Forecasts 56
Macroeconomic Indicators 58
CHAPTER 6 Games Consoles in Germany 60
Market Overview 60
Market Value 62
Market Volume 63
Market Segmentation 64
Market Share 65
Competitive Landscape 66
Market Forecasts 68
Macroeconomic Indicators 70
CHAPTER 7 Games Consoles in Japan 72
Market Overview 72
Market Value 74
Market Volume 75
Market Segmentation 76
Market Share 77
Competitive Landscape 78
Market Forecasts 80
Macroeconomic Indicators 82
CHAPTER 8 Games Consoles in the United Kingdom 83
Market Overview 83
Market Value 85
Market Volume 86
Market Segmentation I 87
Market Share 88
Competitive Landscape 89
Market Forecasts 90
Macroeconomic Indicators 92
CHAPTER 9 Games Consoles in the United States 94
Market Overview 94
Market Value 96
Market Volume 97
Market Segmentation 98
Market Share 99
Competitive Landscape 100
Market Forecasts 102
Market Volume Forecast 103
Macroeconomic Indicators 104
CHAPTER 10 Company Profiles 105
Microsoft Corporation 105
Nintendo Co., Ltd. 117
Sony Corporation. 120
CHAPTER 11 Appendix 131
Data Research Methodology 131
Report writing team 132
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