connotation/denotation dark souls 3

The Denotation of the image is the lord of cinders with the firelink armour set and the whole "burning" perpetuates the embers that are coming from lord of cinders. 
But the denotation of the game cover is the soul of cinders who appears to be "torn" from battle with the battle stance he is in. Further analysis is the knight in the cover is perpetuated as tired which is a resemblance to dark souls 3 being the last of the game series, the last stand and the last challenging fight the character will endure physically and emotionally. Being physically on fire and emotionally tired, seeing all of this as myself and possibly in other peoples  eyes

The connotation of this game Dark souls 3 impacts me a lot because not only is it interesting but it's unique to me and i like very challenging games, I like to beat a game perceived as hard by other players and slay the game, I like the player vs player experience, the high of being the top of the leader board and knowing you've defeated a hard game. But to someone else who lacks enjoyment of a challenge and rage quits every 5 minutes they wouldn't agree with my view on the game

product genre dark souls 3

Dark souls genre is a fantasy rpg action game that can also be played online and solo play where the theme of darkness is afflicted but not just the dark, at times Gothic at times dark fantasy motif, but some elements of platforming (in the sense you can do a lot of trick jumps, not everything is a series of flat grid rooms.) and falling is one of the, if not the games' biggest threat to you with the physics of fall damage the genre of this game features pathetic fallacy when the player travels to specific terrains and when a boss is yet defeated altering the games appearance to your play style making it pretty much however hard you want it. This game fits with that genre f multiplayer rpg.

product purpose

The game is designed to be completed but many players often leave the game for a while
 because they cant defeat a boss, which is an open world rpg game (role playing game) which is the purpose.
The game released DLC that kept the game proceeding although the game was a solid 10/10 without the dlc so when the DLC was released it made the game even better. The final DLC ashes of Ariandel concludes the dark souls series as there was originally the release of demon souls that turned into dark souls and then a trilogy, the purpose was just the main dark souls game until fans loved the game that much scholar of the first sin, bloodborne and dark souls 3. The game's purpose was really for the hardcore players who loved the first dark souls, as there's not really as many challenging games out there Bandai namco gained a new loophole for a game that fans adored, a purpose for hardcore players to prove their worth in the dark souls series with bloodborne being a great skill required dark souls 3 was where it's at and scholar of the first sin dark souls 2
The primary language of Dark Souls is difficulty as the game varies that difficulty with the players design that goes into its character builds, sound effects, and environmental design, and with the same purpose to explore as an RPG game solely based on skill to survive the exploration. With a weak character build, survival is hard which dark souls is mostly known for; the difficulty.
in an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki he quotes that "the game design and game play is strictly how the player makes it out to be"
The original dark souls franchise sold 2,828,000 games just as the first Dark souls game and dark souls 2 sold 2,311,000 games which is obviously a good call to make more of the dark souls series.

Introducing Media Products And Audiences - Bandai Namco

Bandai Namco founded on 1 June 1995 62 years ago in Tokyo Shinagawa offering a broader range in their industry consisting of Anime, video game industry and motion pictures.
Their individual divisions consisting of
Bandai Namco Entertainment
900 (as of April 2017)
Bandai Namco Studios
1066 (as of April 2017)
Obviously increasing.
In 2010, Namco Bandai Games entered the Guinness World Records for being the company that released the most TV commercials for the same product, a Nintendo DS game called Solatorobo: Red the Hunter. They created 100 versions of the ad as the game consists of 100 chapters which is of course a good marketing strategy manages publishing, and marketing of already developed content.

Some of the games developed by Bandai Namco are of course games that are from the Anime's which are Dragon Ball & Naruto further releasing games Dragon ball Xenoverse 1/2 and Naruto ultimate ninja storm 4 and Naruto ultimate Ninja storm road to Boruto. 

Some of the competitors would be Capcom because the 2 games streetfighter and justice league heros  by warner bros studios would compete against eachover because they're both great fighting games and predominantly try and outdo eachover.