Power, profits and labor practices in the video game industry
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Video games. A massive global industry expected to generate nearly $190 billion in revenue this year, according to industry estimates. So why have there been unprecedented layoffs across the gaming world?
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| 0:49.0 | This is on point. I'm Magnaakra Bardy. Video games. |
| 0:54.0 | You probably play them, right? |
| 0:56.0 | Well, if not you, I will bet that someone very close to you does, |
| 1:00.0 | because more than 3 billion people around the world do, according to the |
| 1:05.6 | Amsterdam-based data firm Newsu. And the games vary wonderfully and wildly. There |
| 1:11.7 | are mobile games like cat snack bar where you are a restaurant |
| 1:16.2 | tycoon who also happens to be a cat and you take orders cook food and serve guests. |
| 1:22.3 | And then there of course the console games, |
| 1:24.0 | like Red Dead Redemption, |
| 1:26.0 | a Western adventure set in the American Southwest |
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| 1:30.0 | and in that one you're a former outlaw hunting down your old gang members. |
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