The video game industry break another sales record last year and it’s now worth more than US$130 billion.
Gaming can bring people together and improve their moods. If you are frustrated with anybody and you can play games it reduces stress and increases work efficiency.
Here is a list of 15 game development companies that are trending all over the world
1. Sony
2 . Microsoft
3. Activision Blizzard
4. Epic Games
5 Gameloft
6. Square Enix
7. Tencent
8. Nintendo
9. Electronic Arts
10. Sega Sammy
11. Bandai Namco
12. Rockstar
Sony
The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released on 3 December 1994 in Japan and In 1995 in North America, Europe, and Australia. The PlayStation proved popular for its extensive game library, popular franchises, low retail price, and aggressive youth marketing. Sony’s PlayStation series gaming hardware revenue amounted to 5 billion U.S. dollars in the year 2020 and over $5.86 billion in revenue between July and September 2021.
XBOX
Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001, in North America and 2002 in Japan, Australia, and Europe. The integrated Xbox Live service launched in November 2002 allowed players to play games online with or without a broadband connection. In 2020, Microsoft’s Xbox consoles gaming hardware revenue amounted to 2.3 billion U.S. dollars. In 2021 Microsoft’s gaming revenue had increased 33% year over year and its revenue increased by $357 million USD in Microsoft’s Q4 2021.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in California. The company was founded in July 2008 by Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games. Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units. In 2020 revenue is $6.66 billion was from digital revenue and $4.85 billion of the total was from in-game spending or add-on content across all platforms. For the quarter ended September 30, 2021, its was revenue is $2.07 billion.
The Company product are
- Call of Duty series
- Crash Bandicoot series
- Guitar Hero series
- Skylanders series
- Spyro the Dragon series
- Tony Hawk’s series
- Diablo series
- Hearthstone
- Heroes of the Storm
- Overwatch
- StarCraft series
- Warcraft series
- Candy Crush Saga
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney in 1991. In early 1992 Mark Rein brought the company, who is the company’s vice president. Epic Games Products are Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, Unreal series, Gears of War series Fortnite. Epic increased EGS revenue of 2021 from $547 million to just $547 million – with a noticeable decline for the following years.
Gameloft
Gameloft SE is a French video game publisher based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Michel Guillemot. The company operates 18 development studios worldwide and publishes games with a special focus on the mobile games market. Gameloft was acquired by media conglomerate Vivendi in 2016. In 2020, gaming company Gameloft generated 116.12 million U.S. dollars. The top-grossing mobile gaming titles published by Gameloft include the free-to-play (F2P) titles Disney Magic Kingdoms, Dragon Mania Legends, Asphalt 8 – Car Racing Game.
Square Enix
Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd is a Japanese entertainment conglomerate and video game company. It is best known for its Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts role-playing video game franchises, among numerous others. In 2005, Square Enix acquired arcade corporation Taito, known for games such as Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, and Darius. In 2009, Square Enix acquired British game publisher Eidos Interactive, which was absorbed into Square Enix Europe to publish titles such as Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and Just Cause. Square Enix first six months of calendar year 2021, is a 2.2 percent decrease in net sales from 172.7 billion yen ($1.5 billion USD) to 168.9 billion yen ($1.48 billion).
Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd., also known as Tencent, is a Chinese multinational entertainment conglomerate, and the largest gaming company in the world. Founded in 1998, it owns Riot Games and Tencent Music. It has over 600 investments, including 40% of Epic Games and 4% of Tesla. The company surpassed a market value of US$500 billion in 2018. It reached a market cap of US$950 billion on February 12, 2021, but had fallen to US$579 billion on December 24, 2021.
- Tencent Holding revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2021, was $21.416B, a 54.45% increase year-over-year.
- In June 30, 2021 was $68.153B, a 31.5% increase year-over-year.
- In 2020 was $69.851B, a 27.95% increase from 2019.
- In 2019 was $54.594B, a 15.55% increase from 2018.
- In 2018 was $47.248B, a 34.27% increase from 2017.
Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd.[b] is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. The company was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Karuta. It gained international recognition with the release of Donkey Kong in 1981 and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Mario Bros. in 1985. In 2021, Nintendo’s net sales amounted to almost 16 billion U.S. dollars, up from 12.1 billion a year earlier.
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It is the second-largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe by revenue and market capitalization after Activision Blizzard. Founded and incorporated on May 27, 1982, by Apple employee Trip Hawkins. EA develops and publishes games of established franchises, including Battlefield, Need for Speed, The Sims, Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Army of Two, Titanfall, and Star Wars. In 2020 Total company sales came at $2.43B USD and operating income profit of $310 M USD. The company-wide profit margin was 12.6% for the year.
Sega Sammy
Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. is also known as the Sega Sammy Group. It is a Japanese holding company formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy Corporation in 2004. Sega was founded on June 3, 1960 by American businessman Martin Bromley. The company started to distribute slot machines to U.S. bases in Japan. During the 1960s, Service Games was renamed Sega Enterprises Ltd. In 2020 Sega Sammy Holdings Inc revenue is 366.5 YEN.
Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.[a] is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Bandai Namco Entertainment owns several multi-million video game franchises, including Pac-Man, Tekken, Gundam, Soulcalibur, Tales, Ace Combat, Taiko no Tatsujin, The Idolmaster, and Dark Souls. Pac-Man himself serves as the official mascot of the company. Bandai Namco healthy 2.3% increase in sales year-on-year, earning $6.8 billion overall.
Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998. Rockstar Games predominantly publishes games in the action-adventure genre, while racing games also saw success for the company. One of such action-adventure game franchises is Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Auto V, has sold over 155 million copies since its release in September 2013, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. According to a study by NetBet, GTA 5 generated about $911 million in 2020. GTA 5, in 2020 alone, generated $911 million for its developer Rockstar Games.
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