European Interactive Games is the companion volume to best selling Interactive Leisure Software: Global Market Assessment report that Screen Digest publishes in association with the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA).The report provides a detailed analysis of the structure and dynamics of the European games industry and looks at the changing factors affecting the key players throughout the games value chain.
It contains 105 pages and 68 tables and charts.The report is structured according to the composition of key industry sectors and the relevant players in each: * Developers * Publishers * Distributors * Retailers * Manufacturers of peripherals * Middleware providers Key Findings from the Report: * Unlike the film and television industries, the UK games industry has consistently contributed a balance of payments surplus to the UK economy in recent years * The number of employees in UK games studios as well as the number of studios has fallen since 2000 * Xbox was the only hardware platform to achieve growth in Europe during 2004 * The 2004 uplift in European software sales was more subdued than expected * The trend for UK developers to downsize staffing numbers is likely to continue in 2005 * Average game development costs have risen by 300% since 1999 * The total number of employees in the UK games industry as a whole has risen by 7% between 2000 and 2004