2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on the Video Game Publishers

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23650130
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
Research Institution	Shibaura Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	KOYAMA Yuhsuke 芝浦工業大学, システム理工学部, 准教授 (80345371)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	パブリッシャー / デベロッパー / 資源特殊性 / 評判
Research Abstract	We surveyed the relationship between publisher and developer in the video game. Results are 1) compared to the book publishing, video game developers financially depend on the game publisher. 2) in many cases, game publisher pay the development costs in advance.