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2023: Video game industry outlook

Call ‘em what you will, but the coming attraction is games and more games.

Ted Pollak

Ted Pollak, senior gaming analyst, JPR The most important video game industry theme for 2023 is not NFT, not blockchain, not cloud gaming, not esports, not virtual or augmented reality, not even the venerable “free to invade your privacy and rip off your kids” genre. It’s not a hot new graphics card, supercharged CPU, new spangled console, handheld platform, retro system, or fancy new peripheral. The most important video game industry theme for 2023 is simply NEW GAMES. Lots of them. The Covid hangover is still with us. But like a partying vacationer shaking off last night’s fog and prepping
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