2024 in Gaming - looking like another good year

Wish there were more interest in Western RPGs.
 
There are very few must have games on the radar for me.

Day One purchases will include, Star Wars Outlaws, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 ( If it actually releases), Unicorn Overlord.

Everything else will be a gamepass download or a pick it up down the line.
 
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Bloomberg: Jason Schreier's five big predictions for 2024



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Five Big Video-Game Industry Predictions for 2024

From consolidation to unionization to the Switch successor, here’s what to expect from the year ahead
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Five Big Video-Game Industry Predictions for 2024​


Switch 2 will have an unexpected twist
But I also think it will come with some strange quirk, be it unpleasant (charging fees for backwards compatibility with Switch games) or just plain weird (augmented reality integration). My longshot prediction: a more complicated console with a detachable screen for portable gaming.
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Saudi Arabia will go big on gaming
I expect that it will continue to follow that path in 2024, making a big splash with the purchase of a major video-game developer or publisher. This will lead to some fallout. Many Western employees have strong feelings about Saudi Arabia’s human rights record. They’ll have to grapple with whether to stay at their jobs or venture into an uncertain market.
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Consolidation will return
game companies are going to return to merging and acquiring. Potential buyers include Saudi Arabia and several US tech giants: Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc. (Microsoft Corp. will stick with smaller moves rather than risk another drawn-out battle with regulators.) Potential sellers include Ubisoft Entertainment SA and Electronic Arts Inc. as well as a handful of mid-sized game companies, such as Borderlands-developer Gearbox Entertainment, which is on the market following the implosion of parent company Embracer Group AB.
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Games as a service will face a reckoning
Sony’s PlayStation, which inexplicably said in 2022 that it planned to release ten live-service games in the next few years, will be the biggest victim of this collapse. It has already canceled several of its service games, and it’s reasonable to expect that more will follow.
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The union effort will begin for real
The North American video-game industry is not unionized, although we’ve seen the beginnings of a few organization efforts at companies such as Activision and ZeniMax. I expect that to change significantly this year.
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My predictions for the industry for the year:

  1. Consolidations/acquisitions will absolutely continue and ramp up.
  2. Up-scaling technologies such as DLSS and FSR will become mandatory solutions to get games to run at decent frame-rate let alone high.
  3. Developers will attempt to unionize but ultimately fail.
  4. The firings and layoffs from studios will get worse this year.
  5. The mid tier game or "AA" game will be completely gone by the end of this generation starting with this year.
 
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wshowers said:
There are very few must have games on the radar for me.

Day One purchases will include, Star Wars Outlaws, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 ( If it actually releases), Unicorn Overlord.

Everything else will be a gamepass download or a pick it up down the line.
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Lucky you. My list is vast.

Just a few must have titles from my much bigger list.

- Black Myth: Wu Kong.
- Star Wars: Outlaws.
- Path of Exile 2.
- Chrono Odyssey.
- Skate 4
- STALKER 2
- Hellblade 2.
- Flight Sim 2024.
- Test Drive Solar Cown.
 
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