Mexican Video Game Industry

The data included in this report come from many sources, starting with extensive interviews with first-party stakeholders and third-party software publishers; distributors; leading retailers; officials at the Economy Ministry, Mexican Customs, the National Institute of Statistics and Geographic Information, and the Bancomext import-export development bank; customs brokers; intellectual property representatives at the Business Software Association and Entertainment Software Association; videogame magazine publishers, journalists, and producers; researchers at the Iberoamericana University; sources at the US Commercial Service; videogame sales representatives; organizers of trade shows; and informal vendors of legitimate and illegitimate videogame products offering their wares in both street markets and online.