The sport trade is enduring a tumultuous interval — however amidst the layoffs, the technological acceleration, the brand new platforms and shifting enterprise fashions — there may be additionally huge alternative… However provided that one invests properly.
Here’s what I cowl in my latest substack article:
📈 Income is down, whereas prices are up: that is why layoffs are taking place. However what can groups do to navigate the following yr?
🎮 “This Recreation is Enjoyable, Bro” — the divide between the mainstream gaming markets and what vocal teams declare on social media; the significance of an incredible sport.
😎 What spatial computing will and received’t do for gaming
🤖 The disruptive impact of creator-led platforms comparable to Roblox
🍎 Longer-term influence of Apple’s adversity in direction of builders
💰 The Internet Renaissance — what’s going to occur as a consequence of WebGPU, and the relative drawback of native cell advertising, and different technological improvements
🕹 Cracks within the 3D Engine market — developer willingness to modify engines
🎮 Subsequent-gen rendering pipelines (Unreal 5 improvements, Gaussian Splats, and so on.) and what they imply for builders within the short-to-medium time period
💻 The energy of PC Gaming
👩🔧 The expansion of UGC inside PC video games
⚔ The significance of IP, and the way it’s shifting in direction of game-first IP
🤖 Impression of Generative AI on each manufacturing and in-game expertise
Significance of decentralized AI
💰 The state of open-economy (blockchain and different) video games
📈 The rising price of Dwell Operations — and make it capital-efficient
Please go to the whole article on Metavert Meditations for my full protection of those matters.
