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ATVI » Topics » We operate in a highly competitive industry.

This excerpt taken from the ATVI 10-K filed Jun 9, 2005.

We operate in a highly competitive industry.

 

The interactive entertainment software industry is intensely competitive and new interactive entertainment software products and platforms are regularly introduced.  Our competitors vary in size from small companies with limited resources to very large corporations with significantly greater financial, marketing and product development resources than we have.  Due to these greater resources, certain of our competitors can spend more money and time on developing and testing products, undertake more extensive marketing campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing policies, pay higher fees to licensors for desirable motion picture, television, sports and character properties and pay more to third-party software developers than we can.  We believe that the main competitive factors in the interactive entertainment software industry include: product features and playability; brand name recognition; compatibility of products with popular platforms; access to distribution channels; quality of products; ease of use; price; marketing support; and quality of customer service.

 

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We compete primarily with other publishers of personal computer and video game console interactive entertainment software.  Significant third-party software competitors currently include, among others: Atari, Inc.; Capcom Co. Ltd.; Eidos PLC; Electronic Arts Inc.; Konami Company Ltd.; Namco Ltd.; Sega Enterprises, Ltd.; Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.; THQ Inc.; Ubi Soft Entertainment; and Vivendi Universal Publishing.  In addition, integrated video game console hardware and software companies such as Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Microsoft Corporation compete directly with us in the development of software titles for their respective platforms.

 

We also compete with other forms of entertainment and leisure activities.  For example, we believe that the overall growth in the use of the Internet and online services by consumers may pose a competitive threat if customers and potential customers spend less of their available time using interactive entertainment software and more using the Internet and online services.

 

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