In Cold Blood
Banned
Who's in who's out, and who's purchased?
My predictions.
MS will make further aquisitions of minor publishers and studios. A push into Japanese studios like Capcom, Platinum etc.
Gamepass will be the dominant subscription service with 70 million subscribers.
Cloud gaming will be mainstream.
Amazon will finally go all in on gaming by buying one of the big publishers such as EA.
Sony will partner up with Amazon for cloud gaming, possibly going in with a subscription service together.
Apple also has moves into gaming, buying a number of studios and publishers.
Disney also sets up a number of game development studios and brings their IP back under their control.
Sony will continue to be the dominat console player, but the gap between xbox and PS has closed.
Epic become a massive corporation and continue on with UE 6.
Tencent get the Huawai treatment from the US government and become less dominant in this space.
Nintendo continue to Nintendo. They have a good working relationship with MS as they don't view each other a threat. First game off the rank is a MS vs Nintendo all star brawl beat them up featuring Mario, Zelda, Doom Guy, Master Cheif etc, which releases on both Xbox and Nintendo's new platform.
VR becomes a major player improvements in tech and pricing.
Sony buys Square and continues to add to their first party studios. They have about 35 inhouse teams.
Apple and Google get smashed by Regulators for their walled garden. They have to allow opposition store fronts.
Google walk away from all gaming interest as they push more into AI.
Sony becomes a multiplatform publisher by releasing everything on PC after a 3 month console exclusive window.
That's about all I have now.
My predictions.
MS will make further aquisitions of minor publishers and studios. A push into Japanese studios like Capcom, Platinum etc.
Gamepass will be the dominant subscription service with 70 million subscribers.
Cloud gaming will be mainstream.
Amazon will finally go all in on gaming by buying one of the big publishers such as EA.
Sony will partner up with Amazon for cloud gaming, possibly going in with a subscription service together.
Apple also has moves into gaming, buying a number of studios and publishers.
Disney also sets up a number of game development studios and brings their IP back under their control.
Sony will continue to be the dominat console player, but the gap between xbox and PS has closed.
Epic become a massive corporation and continue on with UE 6.
Tencent get the Huawai treatment from the US government and become less dominant in this space.
Nintendo continue to Nintendo. They have a good working relationship with MS as they don't view each other a threat. First game off the rank is a MS vs Nintendo all star brawl beat them up featuring Mario, Zelda, Doom Guy, Master Cheif etc, which releases on both Xbox and Nintendo's new platform.
VR becomes a major player improvements in tech and pricing.
Sony buys Square and continues to add to their first party studios. They have about 35 inhouse teams.
Apple and Google get smashed by Regulators for their walled garden. They have to allow opposition store fronts.
Google walk away from all gaming interest as they push more into AI.
Sony becomes a multiplatform publisher by releasing everything on PC after a 3 month console exclusive window.
That's about all I have now.