This report discusses consumer adoption of networked gaming, including profiles of networked gamers and interest in connected and cross-platform gaming. In addition, it covers the technology solutions enabling such services and examines the industry impact and revenue opportunities for game developers, hardware / equipment manufacturers, and broadband service providers.

Table of Contents

The Bottom Line
1.0 Research Methodology
  1.1 Consumer Data
  1.2 Companies Profiled
2.0 Classification of Networked Gaming
3.0 LAN Gaming
  3.1 LAN Gaming and Derivative Business Opportunities
    3.1.1 Home Networking Vendors
    3.1.2 Broadband Service Providers
    3.1.3 Game Server Providers and VAS Providers
  3.2 LAN Gaming on Portable Game Players
4.0 Casual Multiplayer Internet Gaming
5.0 Massively Multi-Player Online Games
  5.1 MMOG Value Chain and the Dominant Business Model
  5.2 Market Overview: Challenges and Opportunities
  5.3 Emerging Business Models
    5.3.1 Ad-Supported Model
    5.3.2 Content Expansion Model
    5.3.3 Pay-to-Play Model
    5.3.4 Avatar-based Revenue Model and Micro-payment
    5.3.5 Secondary Market
    5.3.6 MMOG Aggregators
6.0 Online Console Gaming
  6.1 Market Overview
  6.2 Online Gaming on Current-Gen Game Consoles
  6.3 Online Gaming on Next-Gen Consoles
  6.4 The Impact of Online Console Gaming on PC Gaming
7.0 Networked Mobile Gaming
  7.1 Mobile Gaming Market Overview
  7.2 Multiplayer Mobile Gaming
  7.3 Market Outlook
8.0 Cross-Platform Networked Gaming
  8.1 The Concept of Pervasive Gaming and Cross-Platform Gaming
  8.2 Cross-Platform Networked Gaming Market Outlook
9.0 Other Potential Business Opportunities
  9.1 Networked In-Game Advertisement
  9.2 Digital Distribution
  9.3 The Flickrization of Online Gaming
  9.4 VoIP Solutions/Services
10.0 Market Forecasts
11.0 Important Market Implications

Resource Book
1.0 Consumer Adoption of Electronic Gaming
  Gamer Segmentation
  Gaming Platforms and Gamer Demographics
2.0 Consumer Adoption of Networked Gaming
  Gaming Alone vs. Gaming with Others
  Demographics of Networked Gamers
  Monthly Expenditure on Networked Gaming
  Preferred Genres for Networked Gaming
3.0 The Impact of Networked Gaming on Technology/ Service Adoption
4.0 Consumer Interest in Cross-Platform Networked Gaming
5.0 International Consumer Perspectives
6.0 Company Profiles
  Blizzard
  Electronic Arts
  Emergent Game Technologies
  Funcom
  Gameloft
  IBM
  Gamespy/IGN
  Linden Lab
  Massive Inc.
  Microsoft
  NCsoft
  Nintendo
  Qualcomm
  Sony
  Square Enix
  Sun Microsystems
  Valve
  Yahoo!

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