Some examples of monopoly companies include Microsoft, Intel, and Google. A monopoly company dominates the market as the sole or primary supplier, allowing it to set prices. When a company gains too much power through monopolization, governments may intervene by requiring the company to sell some assets to reduce its market share.
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A monopoly market is one in which there is only one seller, there are barriers preventing others from entering, there are
no near substitutes for the items, the cross-elasticity of demand with respect to all other products is low, and there is no
other company providing the same product. A monopolist with price control can set the price at which his product is sold.
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A monopoly market is one in which there is only one seller, there are barriers preventing others from entering, there are
no near substitutes for the items, the cross-elasticity of demand with respect to all other products is low, and there is no
other company providing the same product. A monopolist with price control can set the price at which his product is sold.
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Chapter 5
Macro-foundations of Strategic Advantage: Industry Analysis
Why console gaming is dying?
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In the past, each next generation of consoles was a step above, and thrived on differentiation. Nintendo NES was a step above Atari and imprecise joysticks. Genesis offered a huge leap in affordable home graphics. PlayStation immersed players into 3-D worlds. Xbox overcame polygons in favor of rounded looks. Current generation of consoles has largely offered better-looking versions of games consumers have already played. Next-generation is no longer “next”. Even wii, after five years of phenomenal growth, is slumping. Console industry has introduced an ever larger number of games, but fewer have gone into new creative territories and are must-have.
In the recent years, gaming consoles have transformed into entertainment hubs for consumers to stream movies or web-based videos from Amazon and Netflix. 40% of all game console activity is non-game. Game consoles account for half of all Netflix users. The shift in the use of game consoles for movies has hurt the console game industry. Over the past 30 years, the business model of the console makers such as Sony and Microsoft was to spend billions in R&D and marketing costs on a new console system on a five year lifecycle, to sell them at loss for the first few years, and to make up the cost from incomes from proprietary and third-party software business - a slew of lucrative $50-$60 games. Now, the console makers are unable to recover their costs, and are incurring losses.
Console makers have tried to reinvigorate interest in living-room and dedicated handheld gaming. Their mainstream consoles are quite old – in 2012, Xbox 360 was 7 years old, and the Wii and the PlaysStation 3 were both 6 years old. New motion-controlled gaming systems like Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move let players control in-game avatars by moving their arms and legs. They have helped sustain consumer interest, but not helped turnaround the console maker fortunes as anticipated.
Experts wonder if a new hardware cycle is really a solution. Some suggest console makers should act more like nontraditional platforms. In 2013, a new entrant launched a console Ouya with free-to-play games and a $99 launch price, and a focus on TV gaming. Some console game developers are using the “free to play” business model to give away their games for free, and then charge players later $5 to $10 for various status upgrades or gameplay perks. This threat of cut-price rivalry is forcing lot of other console gamers to offe ...
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Chapter 5
Macro-foundations of Strategic Advantage: Industry Analysis
Why console gaming is dying?
Since 2010, console-based video games industry has slumped. The waning consumer interest has hurt the big three consoles: Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. The console game industry has kept alive because of a select few big game franchises like “Call of Duty” and “Madden”. However, the industry’s future is uncertain.
In the past, each next generation of consoles was a step above, and thrived on differentiation. Nintendo NES was a step above Atari and imprecise joysticks. Genesis offered a huge leap in affordable home graphics. PlayStation immersed players into 3-D worlds. Xbox overcame polygons in favor of rounded looks. Current generation of consoles has largely offered better-looking versions of games consumers have already played. Next-generation is no longer “next”. Even wii, after five years of phenomenal growth, is slumping. Console industry has introduced an ever larger number of games, but fewer have gone into new creative territories and are must-have.
In the recent years, gaming consoles have transformed into entertainment hubs for consumers to stream movies or web-based videos from Amazon and Netflix. 40% of all game console activity is non-game. Game consoles account for half of all Netflix users. The shift in the use of game consoles for movies has hurt the console game industry. Over the past 30 years, the business model of the console makers such as Sony and Microsoft was to spend billions in R&D and marketing costs on a new console system on a five year lifecycle, to sell them at loss for the first few years, and to make up the cost from incomes from proprietary and third-party software business - a slew of lucrative $50-$60 games. Now, the console makers are unable to recover their costs, and are incurring losses.
Console makers have tried to reinvigorate interest in living-room and dedicated handheld gaming. Their mainstream consoles are quite old – in 2012, Xbox 360 was 7 years old, and the Wii and the PlaysStation 3 were both 6 years old. New motion-controlled gaming systems like Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move let players control in-game avatars by moving their arms and legs. They have helped sustain consumer interest, but not helped turnaround the console maker fortunes as anticipated.
Experts wonder if a new hardware cycle is really a solution. Some suggest console makers should act more like nontraditional platforms. In 2013, a new entrant launched a console Ouya with free-to-play games and a $99 launch price, and a focus on TV gaming. Some console game developers are using the “free to play” business model to give away their games for free, and then charge players later $5 to $10 for various status upgrades or gameplay perks. This threat of cut-price rivalry is forcing lot of other console gamers to offe ...
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Pricing strategies and decisions
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2. Can you name some examples of “monopoly companies?” A monopoly company is where one supplier or company dominates the market. As a result of owning the majority of the market it can set a benchmark price at whatever it likes. When this happens the government steps in to disperse the power of the company by sometimes making it sell some of it’s assets .
5. Market share Market share is a percentage of total sales volume in a market captured by a brand, product or a firm. This links to monopoly companies because they dominate chunks of the market until they own the majority of it, preventing other companies from competing.
6. Competition Competition is a contest between individuals, groups, businesses, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two or more parties strive for a goal which cannot be shared. For example businesses compete for customers, resources, and employees.
7. Sony and Microsoft Microsoft , Nintendo and Sony are in competition for customers to increase their sales so that they increase their profit, also known as a price war. Sony have started by lowering the prices of their console and creating “Playstation Move” which is a motion sensing controller that is detected by the “Playstation Eye Camera” for the Playstation 3. In return to this Microsoft have also lowered the price of their console and created “Kinect” for the Xbox 360 which is a sensor on the console which detects movement, spoken commands and presented objects or images.
8. Nintendo wii The price of a Nintendo wii is already a lot cheaper then a Xbox 360 and a Playstation 3, this is competition based pricing (where they use their competitors price to judge theirs) and the wii already has “wii plus” which is really sensitive to movement. What could Nintendo do to improve their console to make it more competitive now that Sony and Microsoft have brought out new motion technology to compete with the wii?
9. Pricing Prices of products can make a huge difference in sales in a good or bad way, for example companies might make no money and/or lose money (a breakeven), e.g., Nintendo might get more customers buying their wii than Microsoft and Sony might get with the Xb0x 360 and Playstation 3 because the wii costs £179.99 where as the Playstation 3 costs £399.99 and the Xbox 360 costs £299.99
10. Loss leader A loss leader is a good or service advertised and sold below its cost price. Its purpose is to bring in (lead) customers in the retail store (usually a supermarket) on the assumption that, once inside the store, the customers will be stimulated to buy full priced items as well.
11. Loss leader examples When Playstation 3 debuted in 2006 the consoles cost about $800 per console to make and were being sold for up to $400 less than that. Companies don’t usually do this because then they have to make up the loss by selling other things like controllers and other accessories.
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13. Demand and supply In the gaming market, shifts in demand are based on trend, e.g. if a celebrity playing on a particular console is publicised people may want to buy it more. Shifts in supply happen when companies give companies quotas, limiting the amount of consoles imported into the country.
14. Price Sensitivity If a product is price sensitive, the demand for a product will respond heavily to changes in price. In a price sensitive market, a business cannot increase the price because this leads to a fall in demand and revenue. What factors affect how sensitive demand is to changing prices?
15. Price Sensitivity Is the product a want or a need? Alternatives/Substitutes Laws that change the market Are these products price sensitive or insensitive? Water Car Beans Oil
