Current Market Trends

Currently the most Purchased steam games are:
Borderlands 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Total War Master Collection
Torchlight II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Dishonored
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Arma 2: Combined Operations
Empire: Total War

Out of this list 5 of them are first  person shooters, 4 are strategy and 1is a top down adventure game.  Within our game we have mainly focused on the FPS aspect of the game but have incorporated a strategic element to it involving a commander telling his tropes where to go.

Best Selling Xbox 360 games

• Grand Theft Auto IV
• Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
• Far Cry 3
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
• Forza Motorsport 3
• The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
• Halo: Reach
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• LEGO The Lord of the Rings
• Borderlands 2

    Out of these games 5 of them are FPS, 2 are free roaming action games, one is an open world RPG and one is a game made for kids. This again shows that FPS are the top grosing genre of games. 

  Best Selling PS3 Games
  GTA 5 
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  Call of Duty: Black ops 
  Call of Duty: Black ops 2
  Grand Turismo 5 
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  GTA IV
  FIFA 13
  BattleField 3
  FIFA 12
  
  Out of these games 5 of them are FPS, 3 of them are sports games and 2 are open world action games. As seen previously the top grossing games are FPS so this is the genre most likely to attract a wider audience. 
  
  From the data collected above the best selling games are FPS this sticks with the way that the market is going at the moment and what is being promoted in terms of big conglomerates and looking at what sells the best
  
  The games that are similar to ours are: 
  Starhawk
  TitanFall
  Borderlands 2
  Overgrowth
  Mirrors Edge
  Brink
  Counter Strike: Global Offensive
  
  Out of these games the two top grossing games are TitanFall and Borderlands 2 were the most sucsesful of the two. The games both involve aspects that we want to take and refine into our own. The things that we liked about the two games was the free running in TitanFall and the stylized art style in Borderlands 2. Athought the gun play in both of these games is poor which is where we started to look at the mechanics involved with Counter Strike: Global Offensive and wanted to take that and add the element of Iron sights to all of the guns. 
  
  The success of Borderlands 2 has been  down to the art style and the comedic aspects within the game. so far the game has sold around 8.5 million copies and is steadily rising, at $30 per copy that rounds of to a revenue of around $255000000 this is however going off of its original price of $30 but has since fallen in price. 
  
  The success of TitanFall was down to the trailers and how well the game was advertised along side the fact it was made by a very popular company that made Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. So far this new game has sold around 700,000 copies although these are just rumors the actual number is expected to be a lot higher. This would mean that at a sale price of around $60 they have made a revenue of around $42000000 although again the final numbers have not been released.