Australian video games ‘could be billion-dollar industry’ if given support: peak body

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“Every other developed nation in the world has government incentive packages in place for game developers. Everywhere except Australia.” By TimBiggs

A lack of federal government support has left Australia with a stunted video game development industry, according to the national peak body, resulting in flagging overseas investment and an extremely small share of a global market now worth $250 billion.income generated by Australian game studios in the 2019-2020 financial year totalled $184.6 million, or six cents for every dollar made by the industry globally.

“Every other developed nation in the world has government incentive packages in place for game developers. Everywhere except Australia,” he said.

 

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TimBiggs Sounds like a great idea,as we have so many talented games in Australia.

TimBiggs I would say we have too small a home market and too much of a brain drain in that industry to be honest. Video games are a massive investment of skill, resources and manpower. We can't even get a good film industry going for the same reason, the money just isn't here.

TimBiggs Rubbish

DrRimmer TimBiggs Would be even greater if they'd built a world class NBN rather than the hacked up clusterfuck they delivered.

TimBiggs Like this do you mean? includes up to $50k for digital games developers. Applications are open I see.

TimBiggs The LNP bought 50 000km of copper wire for the NBN in 2013. Now they admit it's useless and needs to be replaced with optic fibres. They have no interest in technology.

TimBiggs We're so backward, it's embarrassing.

TimBiggs This is an absolute joke, why the hell should taxpayers be subsidising video games? If it's so profitable, find private sector investment.

TimBiggs *COUGH* FTTP NBN *COUGH*

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