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Video Game Industry Will Flourish 2025 and Beyond, But One of the Big Three Console Makers Will Struggle

DFC’s Annual Market Report and Forecast Projects Console and PC Gaming’s Winners and Losers; Nearly 4 Billion Gamers Worldwide Will Spend >$200 Billion Next Year DFC Intelligence, the longest standing research and advisory firm focused exclusively on the video game industry, published its 2024 market report and forecast today, projecting major revenue growth for the second half of the decade while also highlighting significant risk .....
Video Game Industry Poised for Strong 2025 Rebound

Video Game Industry Poised for Strong 2025 Rebound

San Diego, CA—October 30, 2024 DFC Intelligence, the longest standing research and advisory firm focused exclusively on the video game industry, expects 2025 to mark the beginning of a long period of significant growth for the sector. DFC today revealed initial details of its annual industry report (full report available in December), including forecasting 15% g.....
Xbox Game Pass Price

Microsoft Increases Price of Xbox Game Pass

Microsoft has increased the price of its Xbox Game Pass service, as well as introducing a new Standard subscription tier. Starting on Wednesday, July 10th the price for Game Pass “Ultimate” for new subscribers has increased $3 a month from $16.99 to $19.99. The PC Game Pass subscription will go from $9.99 to $11.99 a month. The “Core” Game Pass service price will go from $59.99 annually to $69.99 annually. For existing Game Pass subscribers the new prices will go i.....
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Creating Age Appropriate Game Experiences with k-ID

Video games are often regarded as an activity primarily for children.  However, the industry has exploded to reach all demographics.  An older sophisticated audience demands mature content.  Furthermore, many games are played online which opens a Pandora’s Box of privacy and safety concerns for all demographics, but especially for today’s digital youth. To protect children, governments around the world have passed legislation regulating online activities for children.....
Invoke AI

Invoke: Generative AI for Game Development

Overview Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around as long as the game industry.  However, in the past 2 years there has been an explosion of interest in generative AI (GenAI).  Generative AI is focused on creating content.  By taking existing data and analyzing it, GenAI can produce new content customized to user prompts. Long term, GenAI will impact all industries, but it already has major applications for any content creation inclu.....
Video Game Industry Must Deal With Shift in Sony’s PlayStation Strategy

Video Game Industry Must Deal With Shift in Sony’s PlayStation Strategy

The video game sector’s woes continue.  The news of layoffs, shutdowns, AAA game title delays were added to by the news from both Sony and Nintendo that reported lower than expected sales and lowered forecasts for the coming year.  While the shortfalls had been previously expected by DFC, the new results have resulted in DFC Intelligence .....
Video Game Sales Decline

Video Game Console Software Declines in 2024

The latest DFC Intelligence forecasts for the 2024/2025 video game industry have been lowered with an expected decline of 4% in console software revenue for 2024, with limited growth in 2025.  The decline is due to a number of factors including declining sales of PlayStation 5 and the end of life for the Nintendo Switch generation.   DFC expects console software revenue in 2024 to be $36 billi.....
PlayStation 5 Forecast

PlayStation 5 Sales Disappoint

For the fiscal year ending 3/31/2024 Sony Group (NYSE: SONY) reported that its Games and Network Services division had revenue of ¥4,267,734 (about $27 billion), up 17% over the previous fiscal year.  However, for the fourth quarter revenue was flat compared to the previous year at ¥1,097,331 (about $7 billion). For the full fiscal year, Sony sold 20.8 million PlayStation 5 units, below its previous estimate of 25 million (lowered to 21 million in February).  Hardware sales.....

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