The five biggest gaming technology trends,
when it
comes to many of the tech trends,
the global
video games industry is often one of the places,
where we'll
experience those in action.
This is
true for ai virtual and augmented reality blockchain and in particular today's
hottest buzzword the metaverse.
So let's
take a look at the most exciting and important trend.
1 - Cloud Gaming
Since the
birth of home video gaming in the 1970s, players have accepted the need to
regularly upgrade to new consoles or computers to ensure,
they can
play the latest and greatest releases,
but many
believe that this paradigm is coming to an end almost all of the big players in
the video game business,
now offer
cloud-based subscription services including,
Microsoft
sony
google
nvidia
tencent and
amazon
under this model,
there's no
need for gamers to buy and upgrade expensive and power hungry hardware,
such as
consoles or pc gpus smart tvs and lightweight streaming devices like chromecast
or fire tv are
all that's
needed,
because the
heavy lifting takes place in the cloud data center and,
the output
is simply screamed into our homes as video,
what's more
the rollout of super fast networks such as 5g,
will bring
us to the point where this new way of delivering games will be available to
mobile devices too,
and making
it much more accessible to more people than ever.
2 - Virtual Reality
Gamers are
among the first to adopt vr and,
over the
past years the uptake of vr has gradually increased as high profile games like
grand theft auto minecraft and doom have become accessible via headsets.
Vr headsets
continue to become more affordable and many can function as standalone devices
or can be connected to a gaming pc to take advantage of their dedicated
hardware.
In the near future pall vr could come a reality further reducing the size of headsets.
3 - The Metaverse
while
companies like meta and microsoft talk grandly of plans to create immersive persistent
online worlds for work and leisure,
millions of
gamers are already used to meeting in virtual universes to do things like play
chess or poker as well as blow each other up,
we will see
these online gaming words expanding to take in other forms of entertainment,
such as
concerts which we've already seen in fortnite or,
branded
marketing pop-ups which we already see in the hugely popular universe of roadblocks,
increasingly
the biggest games and franchises will repurpose themselves as platforms to offer
a more flexible range of user experiences such as,
Socializing
Chatting or
any other form
of shared interactions.
Game creators
will find value in keeping players hooked into their platforms either by
growing their loyalty as subscribers or through transforming them into captive
audiences for marketers.
Kindly
controversially several of the biggest generators of games similar as,
Square
Enix and
ubisoft
announced intentions to build non-fungible tokens or nfts into their games,
as a way of
letting players win earn and trade unique in- game particulars,
another
growing trend is the explosion of play to earn games,
that reward
players with cryptocurrencies or tokens for taking part in daily play,
for example
axi infinity has over a million daily active users,
with some
of them earning upwards of 250 dollars per day.
5 - Esports
Esports
brings aspects that we normally see in professional sports such as,
live
audiences
tournaments
leagues
sponsorships
and
salary
players to the world of video games,
esports
will be an sanctioned event at the 2022 asian games,
making it
their first inclusion in a major international multi-sport tournament,
esports
exploded in popularity during the covet 19 pandemic,
and for the
first time generated over a billion dollars in revenue in 2021.
This income
is generated from media rights and sponsorship and is forecast to grow to
nearly 2 billion in 2022.
we saw 73 million
viewers turning in to watch the final of the league of legends world championship
in 2021,
which was
an increase of over 60 percent over 2020,
and that
record is anticipated to formerly again be smashed in 2022,
