LO1: Sumo games Business Report

Sumo digital are based in Sheffield, it is an independent game development studio, and the company has been running since 2003 and has become more popular since. Sumo was originally a very small group, it only had about 4 members in it. The company has now developed to India base and have grown to 40 more artists. With the large projects which are set the company take on freelance employees so extra people are there to make it easier when it becomes tough. On the other hand, these employees which are hired are only temporary whilst their doing the certain project they were hired for. The company is also internet based. Sumo was found by Darren Mills.

The company makes games for many different platforms such as Xbox, Playstation, Wii, DS, IOS, Windows, Mac Os, Vita. Popular games you may have recalled which they have developed are Sonic games, little big planet 2, Monkey ball and Moshi monsters. Their main publisher is Sega, but they have been published by other companies such as Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft, BBC, etc. Sumo's original name was Gremlin. Sumo's development software that is used is Art- 3D studio macs for modelling, Mia and Zedd Brush. For coding and programmers CTT is used. 

The games which have been developed by sumo have been incredibly successful and they have won a number of awards for their creations. 

Their first platform for a game was PSP, They worked with many partners in order to develop these games. OutRun2 was released on to the Xbox platform, This game was developed by a small group and worked along side Sega Japan to create OutRun2, since their success with this game, Sega have now been working with Sumo for the past 10 years.

Sumo have developed 36 games and a lot in the same year, for example, they developed 5 different games in 2010. In 2015 they will have developed 38 games, as they are working on Forza Horizon 2 which is a car racing game dedicated by The Fast And Furious. They will have also come out with Disney Infinity which is a game a majority of people have been waiting for and will most likely sell out every where very rapidly. The new disney Infinity game will include Franchise such as Star Wars, Inside Out, The Avengers, Mickey Mouse Universe, Tron, Mulan and Frozen, and will involve the majority of the characters.