Onlive advantages and disadvantages

Advantages:

• Easily accessible to consumers, they can stream games any time and anywhere
• Unique selling point of on demand games means Onlive will receive huge revenues and profits
• Onlive might become monopoly in the games market - Good for their own business because of profits
• Provides new jobs for a new type of technical service
• Reduces retail game shops stock and storage costs
  

Disadvantages:

• Quality issues - could affect internet connection and servers could crash
• Broadband service consumers currently have might not be powerful enough - imposing additional costs
• Expensive service - $15 dollars a month service charge
• Could reduce revenues of retail shops selling games and cause job losses
• Could put other console manufacturers out of business
  

Gta IV distributor

Gta 4 has two distributors. One in retail (Take Two Interactive) and Steam (Online).
Take Two is an American publisher, developer and distributor of videogames. Take Two own rockstar games and 2K games.
The headquarters is based in new york.
Steam is a digital distribution company who only sell online, they vary their distribution form large popular games to small independent ones.

Rockstar Games

1. What did you like about the game?
2. Who is the game aimed at?
3. What do you think of the content/game experience?
4. Is there any potential issues?
5. Any references to any other media industry? ie music film
6. Similarities between the games?
7. Which Console? Why it was released on this?

Table Tennis
1. Very simple and easy to pick up.
2. Young kids, 8+
3. Quite fun and simple.
4. Can get repetitive.
5. No.
7. Xbox 360 and Wii. Released on Wii because of motion sensor.


Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
1. Variety of things to do.
2. Male 18+ because of violence.
3. Content had a number of options for the player so it kept them interested.
4. Can be a very violent game which might influence some people.
5. References to music can be found whilst driving and listening to the radio.
7. Playstation 2. Helped to promote it as was released near the time.


Canis Canem Edit
1. Completing your objectives to earn new things.
2. Mainly teenagers 15+
3. Not much content, took a while to get into and weak plot.
4. Slow pace may disinterest players.
5. No
7. Playstation 2. Purpose wasn't to have good graphics like next generation consoles.


Red Dead Revolver
1. Interesting western theme and fun shooting enemies.
2. Teenagers 15+
3. Attention to detail made content good.
4. Becomes a bit boring after a while.
5. No apart from western movie theme.
7. Xbox.


Midnight Club LA
1. Fast driving experience
2. Young children 11+ and driving fans
3. Not really much content like plot but easy and simple to play.
4. Can get very repetitive after a while.
5. Possibly cars and racing films like fast and furious.
7. Playstation 3 because of advanced graphics.

Videogames History

What was the first ever game you played?
The first ever game I played was streets of rage on the Sega Mega drive.



What games did you used to enjoy playing and what did you like about them?
I used to enjoy playing games such as Golden eye and Super Mario on the Nintendo 64. I liked Golden Eye because it was the first James Bond game that came out and the movies were very popular at the time.


What games do you play now and what do you like about them?
I play games such as Call of duty 5 and GTA 4 at the moment. I liked call of duty because it was first person shooter so it made you feel like you were part of the game. I liked GTA 4 because of the variety of things you could do in the game and the storyline.



What consoles have you bought and why?
The only console I have personally bought is the xbox 360 and I bought it because it wasn't just a console in which you could play games on but it was a home entertainment system for music, pictures and films etc.

Do you play games online? If yes, what games and where do you play them?
If I am very bored and I am on a long journey I play breakout on my phone.