IDG Products and Services

IDG offers a broad range of research, consulting, and forecasting tools that provide valuable business intelligence and strategic insights for video game publishers, developers, retailers, manufacturers, and investors:


Prediction Markets
  • Closed industry-only trading market for leveraging wisdom-of-the-crowds to address strategic industry trends
  • Secured, publisher- and developer-specific trading markets for forecasting title sales, quality, and release schedule performance

Specialized Consulting
  • Consulting experts specializing in the worldwide PC and console hardware, software, online and wireless gaming markets
  • Project experience includes publisher / brand audits, title post-mortems, sales forecasts, pricing studies, market entry strategies, due diligence, and other portfolio optimization engagements

Industry Market Research and Analysis
  • In-depth quarterly and annual reports on worldwide video game and multimedia business and markets
    • North America (US / Canada)
    • Western Europe (UK / France / Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Spain / Portugal / Italy / Benelux / Nordic)
    • Japan
    • Latin America (Mexico / Brazil / Argentina)
    • Consoles, handhelds, PC retail, online / digital distribution
  • More than 40 leading companies subscribe to IDG research
  • Special studies and analysis on emerging markets and trends

Sales
and Distribution Representation
  • Sales representation for leading publishers in Latin America
  • Access to IDG network of international contacts