Portugal has almost 100 companies of video games – TVI24

The industry of video games worth more than the movie and music together and in Portugal alone, there are nearly one hundred companies in this area, revealed this Thursday in charge of the Lisbon Games Week, taking place at FIL.

It started Thursday at the International Fair of Lisbon (FIL), the Park of Nations, the second edition of Lisbon Games Week, where visitors can watch the launch of new games, participate in competitions or recall the old ladies machines existed in the game rooms of the end of the last century.

In an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters, hundreds of consoles and computers present a wide variety of games available to all who visit the exhibition, which ends Sunday evening.

“This is the big event of the gaming industry, where you have large foyer premieres and video games that will be released now, at Christmas and even some that will be launched in 2016,” he said Lusa Pedro Silveira, responsible for organizing, adding that there can also meet the most famous youtubers or find out what they are up to the Portuguese in this area.

The Lisbon Games Week is also a space where young professionals can meet future vocations and meet some of the Portuguese branch companies.

“At this point in the gaming industry is the most profitable entertainment, is 100 billion dollars. It is more profitable than the movie and music industry together, “he told Lusa Ivan Barroso, the space engineer of Portuguese industry, noting that there are nearly 100 Portuguese companies.

Ivan Barroso believes that Portugal is experiencing a new game development good and that this must be the product more easily exportable.

“The biggest Portuguese company already employs over 100 people,” he added, noting that to make a game are precise professionals from various areas of the arts but also science.

In addition to the programmers and engineers a video game studio needs of designers, artists, cinematographers, screenwriters, sonoplastas, actors, 3D modelers, 2D and 3D animators, professionals of advertising and marketing and even advocacy, He said.

The latest studies indicate that in Portugal, the business of video games Mobile already worth 30 million euros.

Last year, about 30,000 people visited the first edition of the Lisbon Games Week and this year the organization expects to grow and reach 40 or 50 thousand visitors. “This Thursday have gone three times more people than last year (the same day),” said Pedro Silveira, early in the afternoon.

For Ivan Barroso, “this is the future industry of this millennium.”