Over 40% of the global game development and game services related budgets are likely to be outsourced to service providers in Eastern Europe and South of Asia. Gameshastra is a major service provider in these regions. We are fully equipped to handle the difficulties faced by Game developers with the development and testing of games that are built for new generation game consoles. Our clients are leading game developers from all over the world who have acknowledged tremendous cost benefits that outsourcing has brought to them. It is expected that 90% of the game studios would resort to outsourcing by 2011. Furthermore, Gameshastra is appropriately poised to deliver the required range of services at optimal costs with its huge talent pool in this domain.
Game developers have taken a historically cautious approach towards outsourcing. But it seems that a tipping point is about to be reached as more developers are realizing the fruits of reduced costs and accelerated development cycles by taking the outsourcing route. This paper will look to highlight the potential of this fast emerging outsourcing process.
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