What Will Happen in Video Games Industry in 2020
We asked our staff not about lottery numbers, or a way to avoid traffic jams, but about what we can expect from the gaming industry in 2020. Things should be quite interesting with the advent of next generation, some great games, and perhaps VR 2.0!
Table of Contents
- What Will Happen in Video Games Industry in 2020
- The great PC war – the decisive battle
- More launchers!
- Video games on Netflix are getting closer
- Service games aren't such a bonanza
- VR 2.0
- Welcome back, Witcher
- Battle Royale war concluded
- China's appetite grows
More launchers!
Steam, uPlay, Origin, GOG Galaxy, Epic Games Launcher, Rockstar Games Launcher, Bethesda Launcher, Blizzard's Battle.net app, Windows Store. I think these are all the launchers we'll find on the PC. At least the more important ones. Every major manufacturer wants to have your app and store for selling games, so we're slowly going back to the days before Steam, when games were not kept in the library of one program, but each led to a separate icon on the desktop.
It's only a matter of time before one of these launchers falls, we lose all the libraries it will contain, and a big scandal will break out, resulting in players losing trust for other small stores as well. Then, everything will again be consolidated in the hands of three, maybe four major companies. However, I doubt this will happen next year. For now, we expect rather a reverse trend and other apps to launch games related to stores from subsequent publishers who would prefer to accumulate all the profits from their games rather than pay commissions to others. Capcom doesn't have its own launcher yet. Namko Bandai, neither. Nor Warner Bros. nor Square Enix, Codemasters, Focus Home Interactive, Gearbox, Sega, THQ, Paradox Interactive. Oh, right, Paradox is already trying. If you think there's no one else to go "their own way," I have bad news.…
