Halo 4 + Mountain Dew [Symbiosis]

The long awaited sequel to one of the most popular gaming franchises in the world, Halo 4 was released earlier this week.
In an unusal marketting bid. 3Foot3 industries and Mountain Dew, have collabrated to increase sales of both products.
This a great example of Symbiosis.
They most likely chosew to colaborate, because of Mountain Dew's new space age look.
The drinks are bright Neon colours and are very well suited to the Halo Universe and still contain enough sugar to make you diabetic just by sniffing it.

GTA: What We Know So Far (NOTES)

Talk about, who owns t.
who develops? who did they used to be?

How it has changed over time (Graphics gameplay voice acting) [gta, gta2, gta london, gta 3, gta vc, gta sa, gta 4]
What do we know about GTAV so far?

Top 20 List Analysis

All the games in the blist are large franchises, apart from Dishonnored which is a new IP, however it is published by Bathesda, creators of Skyrim,, The game is likely to have had high sales numbers because the comsumers trust games that have been published by Bathesda. This chart also showes us that established IPs are more likely to make money because the comsumer knows the type of game they're getting. For example, despite Assassin's Creed 3 having a whole new gaming Engine and protagonist, people know that they will play as a hooded figure, hunting for Templar Knights, for the majority of the game. So it is harder for New IPs to get regonisition but when they do, they tend to be quite successful.
It is highly likely that the reason for Skyrim climbing back up the charts because they recently released new DLC, Dawngaurd.
It is clear that EA is a very popular Publishing company as they have 3 games in the top 10.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Fifa 13 and Medal of Honner: Warfighter. are all published by EA and aree currently in 4th 5th and 6th possitions. This shows that EA is highly established publisher.
It is clear that Games with exclusivity are lower down the charts because they are only available on one platform. Both, Assassin's Creed: Liberation, and Porofessor Layton: Miracle Mask are both exclusive to one platform. Professor Layton is exclusive to 3DS and AC: Liberation is exclusive to PS Vita.
It is clear that First Party games are still popular since there asre 2 in the top 20. Pokemon Black and White 2 (They ran out of ideas clearly -_-') and Forza: Horizon are both made by the platform holder, for the platform holder. Forza is made by Microsoft and Pokemon has also been made and re-hashed, by Nintendo.
It is clear that Sony do not focus on 1st Party games. There are Nintendo and Microsoft games but none from Sony.  They only seem focus on games that will get large amount of attention, for example Uncharted and The Last of Us has been getting some attention from various conventions . Both these franchises are owned by Naughty-Dog.  So Naughty-Dog is clearly a well love developer.

Reality is Broken Facts/Stats

US Troops spend several hours a week playing games like Halo, while stationed over seas, in order to pass time.

Young Adults in China spent so much money on in-game objects that the banks had to intervene to prevent the devaluation of their currency.

On average, people under the age of 21 have spent 10,000 hours each, on video games

183 million active gamers in the US, 100 Million EU and 200 Million in China.

US$68Billion annual projection by the end of 2012.

Further GTA/Rockstar Notes

GTA Vice City sold an unexpected 15 million copies on the PS2.
GTA San Andreas sold 14.2 million
GTA 3 sold 11.6 million copies
This string of success makes GTA the most successful game series to ever be released on the PS2 platform.
GTA 3 Was the most successful video game in 2001. It went on to win "Game of the Year 2002" and "Excellence in Game Design" awards at the GDCA

GTA Vice City was the biggest selling game in 2002. GTA 3 came 2nd.

GTA has consitently been the most controversial series in gaming history. Jack Thomson has tried, unsuccessfully, to link the games to Real-Life murders and in Sep06 filed a lawsuit of "wrongful death" against Take-Two, Rockstars parent company, Following a Shooting spree by a 16 year-old.

San Andreas was the fastest selling game ever in the UK, selling 1 million copies in 9 days. $_$

GTA  was the first game to be recognised by ELSPA after selling 1million copies in the UK

GTA holds the record for the largest in game soundtrack. 11 stations, each with a DJ and 156 licensed tracks. The soundtrack was made available for purchase in 2004 as an 8 CD box-set. The songs are also available for digital online via amazon, itunes, etc
(Merchandising/Convergence)

Tyrone McMillan was sentenced to 7 years inprisonment after a 55 minute car chase through New York, inspired by GTA

Vice City was heavily influenced by Scarface and other Gangster movies

In May 2007 Rockstar announced a limited number of permitted Pre-orders on the GTA 4 Special Edition, which was only £70 and included a safe deposit box made of metal, which contained:
A key ring
Duffle bag
Artwork
Sound track
and ps3/360 copy of the game.
(Merchandising, Synergy) 

San Andreas has 339 voice actors, more than any other game. Fifty of these, are important to the story. One of these actors was Samuel L Jackson (Die Hard with a vengeance, star wars prequels etc)
Axl Rose (Guns 'n' Roses) and Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs) have also played parts.

San  Andreas is the largest game in the series, covering 17 miles[2], 3 cities 12 towns and a lot of countryside.

GTA 4 was the first game to include a virtual version of a real comedian, Ricky Gervais (The Office, Cemetery Junction/).
GTA 4 has 18 radio stations and 214 tracks
GTA 4 has 861 voice actors, 174 of which play named characters. Most of the 687 where fans who volunteered to do small parts of NPCS around the city.

Over 4000 news stories about GTA have been released since 2008 accusing it of "glamorizing violence"

GTA 4 is rumored to have cost 100 million USDollars to make $_$

World-Wide Sales of GTA:
San Andreas = 21.5 Mil
Vice City = 17.5 Mil
GTA 3 = 14.5 Mil
GTA 4 = 10.5 Mil
Libeety City Stories = 8.25 Mil
$_$

GTA IV Hierarchy

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