competition within the game’s product niche. We identify game niches by genre, age-appropriateness, a four week window cohort … during periods of fierce intra-niche competition. We show that games are more likely to be released so as to avoid weeks when …

We consider a methodology for studying how beliefs shape platform competition, based on the notion of a partial … focality. The concept of focality is useful for modeling platform competition when the presence of network effects results in … competition between platforms that differ in their basic quality. The initial degree of focality affects the ability of the high …