Battlefield 3 was released on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and was announced for Wii U at E3 2011. By releasing on all platforms, EA and DICE aimed to appeal to both hardcore PC gamers and more casual console gamers to maximize profits. Just Cause 2 was released on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 to open up new markets and maximize profits by making the game available to as many gamers as possible, though it had memory issues on last-gen consoles. Life is Strange was released digitally on PC via Steam, and on PlayStation 3, 4 and Xbox 360, and One via their online stores to appeal to a wide audience across platforms and consoles to

2. BATTLEFIELD 3
• Battlefield 3has been released on a number of consoles with EA and DICE releasing products on
all consoles form their own personal distribution platform, Origin. This means that the game
cant be sold anywhere for a while meaning that EA can charge as high prices as they want
because there is no where to get it.
• The game was released for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and there was a WII U version that was
announced during the 2011 E3 conference. This means that DICE and EA can maximise profits as
the game is being sold to serious and hard-core gamers on PC and more casual gamers on
consoles who wont play the game religiously. Battlefield appeals to both classes of gamers and
has the most potential sales as it is available on all consoles and platforms

3. JUST CAUSE 2
• Just cause 2 is sold on many different platforms including PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 which
means that Square Enix are a 3rd party game company that code games to as many consoles as
possible to enable maximum profits. This also sells the game in as many ways as possible
opening up new markets to people and gamers who wouldn’t purchase the game if it was
exclusively on the PC
• It also has memory issues on the consoles that it was released on as they are the last generation
of consoles and the world is simply to memory intensive to run on the old consoles. This meant
that they had to tone down graphics and reduce memory on consoles, lower prices followed but
for a game that was really made for the PC market at the time

4. LIFE IS STRANGE
• Life is Strange has been released on PC via Steam, Playstation 3 & 4 via the PlayStation Network
and Xbox 360 & 1 via Xbox Live. The game is released as 100% digital meaning that there are no
physical copies of the game except for the limited edition which includes an artbook, the
soundtrack, score and directors commentary.
• This means that Life is Strange is getting the best chance of demand as it is appealing to a wider
range of audiences around and on different consoles. This means that there is also a higher
chance of profits and more potential customers, meaning that the company are a 3rd party
game company and release the title for any consoles that they can

5. THAT DRAGON, CANCER
• The game was intended for PC & Mac and was distributed on its own website as all of the profit
raised went to charity to try and cure cancer. If the game was sold on a distribution platform
such as steam, they will take a percentage of the earnings from each sale meaning that the game
will not be entirely for profit.
• The game is sold at £6.49 for 90 mins of the game as it is a 90 minute play through. The game
eventually came out on steam as it was a Kickstarter and is sold for £10.99 on the platform. The
IPhone version was released and is £3.99 on the app store meaning that the phone version is
much cheaper but doesn’t perform as well as the other platforms