Just a few thoughts, on an in my opinion, overlooked development in the gaming industry. Just my 2 cents!

Crossplatform is just starting to evolve and historically console/pc focused game developers are getting into the mobile space.
I think we’re gonna see ... (1/X)

2/ mobile gaming evolve a lot in the near future and this will lead to continues growth in this segment of the industry. Computing power is getting better on mobile and this trend is leading to more advanced games being released on this platform.

3/ We’re currently seeing this trend evolve. $ATVI said in recent earnings call that they plan to push further into mobile gaming. Daniel Alegre says the company will eventually see all of its franchises arrive on mobile. We’re also seeing Riot Games starting to push out more ...

4/ crossplatform games and mobile games. Its gonna be interesting to follow this expansion into high fidelity mobile gaming. When they inevitably experience succes we should see a boost in mobile gaming that could perhaps strengthen the ...

5/ general growth in gaming further by reaching an audience and giving them gaming experiences that could bring them to other platforms such as pc/console. High fidelity mobile gaming is already big in China but has very little market share in the rest of the world. ...

6/ This increase in crossplatform and high fidelity mobile gaming will probably conclude in a ramp up in games produced with this release strategy in mind.

At the same time we’re seeing a trend towards this interconnection between games. Carrying rewards between games, making...

7/ platforms that lets you interact with the same univers in different ways. If you can create this vast univers where there are multiple ways of interacting you’re more likely to keep your users attention when they decide they’ve played a game for long enough now. ...

8/ ATVI is rewarding its players across war zone, modern warfare and black ops so you basically reward your players for engaging in your univers, not just a specific game. We might see the same thing happen with Riot Games with all the new games they are pushing.

9/ At the same time we’re finally seeing the big gaming companies pushing multiplatform games.

We’re still only seeing the beginning of crossplatform gaming. If we look to the big 'console/pc' game companies, it’s still very limited how much content they’ve pushed to mobile.

10/ Thanks to the simplicity of Unity we’re seeing the big gaming companies, who has been focused on predominantly console and PC, push to mobile.

What also stands out to me is how gaming is developing into social hubs, justifying the move toward Free-To-Play where having the...

11/ users attention is generally the main focus. Development of a 'metavers' is somewhat the end goal here. These massive gaming companies will be able to maintain user attention crossplatform, in vast universes where engagement can be ensured through different medias.