We must admit, we wasn’t too hopeful that 2023 was going to be a good year for gaming. Over the past few years since the world changed in 2020, We haven’t been as excited about new games as we once was. We’ve put it down to developers still feeling the effects of trying to adapt to a new way of making games while everyone was at home and some game’s suffering as a result. It does seem as though those challenges are now behind the gaming industry and things are back to normal.
biz where he gave a more pessimistic outlook on the year ahead, citing that Palworld and Helldivers 2 aren’t enough to call this year a success yet saying “Helldivers 2 and Palworld have done a lot of heavy lifting early in the year, but we’re up against a comp last year with Hogwarts Legacy, which was a massive hit. So we need another game on top of Helldivers and Palworld to try to comp what Hogwarts was doing last year, and it’s still doing a year later.