The Future Of The Games Industry? It’s In Three Parts - by Nicholas Lovell

      Posted 10/13/10 02:52:00 pm  

This post originally appeared on GAMESbrief.

I spend a lot of time talking to people about my view on the future of the games industry. I keep talking about a blog post that I must write to explain how I think the industry is going to coalesce around three totally different businesses. This is that blog post.

Blockbuster studios – or the big get bigger

The future of the blockbuster game is bright. Every piece of evidence I see suggests that big games are getting bigger (see the endless stream of “biggest first week sales ever” from breathless games PRs.)

These games are sucking up budgets, investor attention, gamer time and media column inches.

The problem is that there are ever fewer of them.

Modern Warfare 2