Global Games Consoles

Introduction

Global Games Consoles industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Global games consoles market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

-The games consoles market consists of the total revenues generated by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony through the sale of their console platforms, including any handheld systems. Market values have been calculated using annual average retail prices for each individual market. Market shares are based upon volume sales and consist of all console sales, including handheld. Any currency calculations used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.

-The global games consoles market had total revenues of $26.8 billion in 2010, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the period spanning 2006-2010.

-Electricals and Electronics retailers account for the largest proportion of sales in the global games consoles market in 2011, sales through this channel generated $10.1 billion, equivalent to 38% of the market's overall value

-The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 6.1% for the five-year period 2010-2015, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $36 billion by the end of 2015.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
MARKET OVERVIEW 6
Market definition 6
Market analysis 6
MARKET DATA 7
Market value 7
MARKET SEGMENTATION 8
Geography segmentation 8
Market distribution 9
MARKET OUTLOOK 10
Market value forecast 10
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 11
Summary 11
Buyer power 12
Supplier power 13
New entrants 14
Threat of substitutes 15
Degree of rivalry 16
LEADING COMPANIES 17
Amazon.com, Inc. 17
Carrefour S.A. 20
GameStop Corp. 23
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 26
APPENDIX 29
Methodology 29
Industry associations 30
Related Datamonitor research 30

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Global games consoles market value: $ million, 2007–11(e) 7
Table 2: Global games consoles market geography segmentation, by value, 2011(e) 8
Table 3: Global games consoles market distribution: % share, by value, 2011(e) 9
Table 4: Global games consoles market value forecast: $ million, 2011–16 10
Table 5: Amazon.com, Inc.: key facts 17
Table 6: Amazon.com, Inc.: key financials ($) 18
Table 7: Amazon.com, Inc.: key financial ratios 18
Table 8: Carrefour S.A.: key facts 20
Table 9: Carrefour S.A.: key financials ($) 20
Table 10: Carrefour S.A.: key financials (€) 21
Table 11: Carrefour S.A.: key financial ratios 21
Table 12: GameStop Corp.: key facts 23
Table 13: GameStop Corp.: key financials ($) 24
Table 14: GameStop Corp.: key financial ratios 24
Table 15: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: key facts 26
Table 16: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: key financials ($) 27
Table 17: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: key financial ratios 27

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Global games consoles market value: $ million, 2007–11(e) 7
Figure 2: Global games consoles market geography segmentation : % share, by value, 2011(e) 8
Figure 3: Global games consoles market distribution: % share, by value, 2011(e) 9
Figure 4: Global games consoles market value forecast: $ million, 2011–16 10
Figure 5: Forces driving competition in the global games consoles market, 2011 11
Figure 6: Drivers of buyer power in the global games consoles market, 2011 12
Figure 7: Drivers of supplier power in the global games consoles market, 2011 13
Figure 8: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the global games consoles market, 2011 14
Figure 9: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the global games consoles market, 2011 15
Figure 10: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the global games consoles market, 2011 16
Figure 11: Amazon.com, Inc.: revenues & profitability 19
Figure 12: Amazon.com, Inc.: assets & liabilities 19
Figure 13: Carrefour S.A.: revenues & profitability 21
Figure 14: Carrefour S.A.: assets & liabilities 22
Figure 15: GameStop Corp.: revenues & profitability 25
Figure 16: GameStop Corp.: assets & liabilities 25
Figure 17: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: revenues & profitability 28
Figure 18: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: assets & liabilities 28