gaming 
what games do you play?
genres 
- action
- horror
- strategy
- puzzle
- indie
- open world
- first person shooters

where
- home
- friends

when?
whenever

how?
- phone
- xbox
- PlayStation

why? 
just an escape and a good time waster, also a good way to keep in contact with old friends and have fun whilst playing the game.


gaming industry 
The gaming industry has reach over £230 billion and it keeps on rising, gaming has became that big that they have gaming conventions where people across the world can come and see the latest games and consoles that are coming out in the next year or so, at these events they can also compete at games for prizes and rewards for who is the best player. this is a big marketing scheme for all companies within the gaming industries as they present their new equipment and new things coming soon. They also sell merchandise for some games and you can even buy games there. The economic side of things is that early on in the mid 80's is when gaming and system started to become popular with people and people started buying systems over their own. However in the early 2000's is when gaming became big with better content and graphics coming in making it easier for players to get good quality content at home, PlayStation was one of the first consoles to have the better graphic out put and the better games and economical boasted Sony until Microsoft came out with the xbox 360 in 2006 with featured game which you could only buy or own on a Microsoft system, such as Halo and Gears of war. These games boasted Microsoft's economic well being so much that it over took Sony's PlayStation. Halo was a huge hit with over 5 games being produced and has a net worth of more than £5 billion, also the other title Gears of war has over 5 games made since release and with a net worth of £2 billion. Microsoft net worth is £750 billion and Sony's is $37.45 Billion. All modern consoles make it so you have to pay for being online such as xbox has their xbox live gold system when players pay so much money a month for online and PlayStation also do this with their PlayStation Plus which allows players to play online such as the xbox live gold.