Gaming Industry Outlook 2015, overall will keep growing

Once again, the new year is like a cloud floating in the sky of unknown rain, waiting for us to find out. The only thing that can be sure now is that something big is going to happen in the coming year. As always, we have made some predictions about what might happen in the 2015, one for the sake of the first, and the other for looking at the accuracy of the predictions at the end of the year.

Host Platform

Sony will continue to be ahead of Microsoft on a global scale, but the battle for host hardware leaders will benefit the vast majority of consumers. At the end of 2015, we will see more discounts on Xbox One hosts and PS4 hosts. Hope to see at least one or even two games consoles will be at the end of the year to reduce the retail price to 299 dollars or even lower prices, even if only temporary promotional price. The software bundle will continue to be the preferred way to add additional value to the host package without lowering the price.

For most of the 2015, Nintendo will continue to stick to its existing strategy, firmly convinced that the new Wii U platform after the launch of the strong game will be able to greatly boost the sales of the mainframe system. Eventually, as the PS4 host and Xbox One host price close to the Wii U host, Nintendo will certainly choose to reduce the Wii U host, and it is possible to make one or two improvements to the host in the process. We may also learn more about what Nintendo is going to do with the theme of "Quality of life" in 2015, but consumers in the game market may not be particularly interested in this Quality. Nintendo's new Zelda game is likely to become another hot game, and will greatly drive the Wii U mainframe sales.

As Google's Android TV is supported by multiple hardware manufacturers, the micro-mainframe market will continue to heat up. Amazon will continue to increase the services it offers to its Fire TV, a hardware system that could launch a new version in 2015. Apple may officially launch its high-profile Apple TV in 2015, with its matching app store and strong gaming performance.

Host games will continue to show people the potential of a new generation of host image processing performance, but it is difficult to have some revolutionary game mechanism. The 2015 most popular host games will also launch the previous generation of host platform version, which is a good way to reflect the new generation of hardware in what aspects of innovation.

Halo 5 (Halo 5) will be a popular piece of work this fall. Call of duty will continue to sell for less than a year, but it will still be one of the best-selling host games of the 2015. "Evolution" (evolve) will become a hot spot at the beginning of this year.

Mobile platform

Mobile games will continue to compete in the game picture, but the biggest winners will be those that combine the quality of the images with the fascinating gameplay experience. The list of the top ten top selling games will remain relatively stable again, with only a few new entries capable of entering the camp. The game companies that have established their position in the mobile field will use their existing game users to transform the original successful works, and once again succeed, the legend of Candy Smash Soda (Candy Crush Soda Saga) is a good proof.

Publishers will try more on monetization because they never give up maximizing the profitability of existing mobile games. There are some games that can be successful using a prepaid fee, and "My World Portable" (Minecraft Pocket Edition) is definitely not a special case when it becomes the hottest selling game on the iOS platform on Christmas Day.

PC Platform

Although the PC platform has always been a conflict, this does not prevent players from the platform and the love of this platform game. The growth of electronic sports will continue, more games will be added to the field of electronic competition, and the prize money will become higher. With online games such as the FIFA online and call to play attracted a large number of users, China will be the fastest growing market for western issuers, and more Western popular PC games will find their way into the Chinese market.

With ultra-high resolution 4K monitors will be priced down in 2015, we may see more games offering 4K mode, and the price of the graphics that can drive this resolution will be reduced to a more reasonable level. Virtual reality and augmented reality devices will develop a PC-oriented version, but due to the lack of hardware requirements and supporting applications, ordinary users actually use the progress is slightly slower.

Gaming company

Major game issuers will continue to grow, but not to the more flexible competitors who focus their business on the mobile market and the digital distribution market. In "Fate" (Destiny) solved the problem of early game sale, after a series of updates, the company will spend a very good year, the company's other game series (such as "Call of Duty" and "small Ronspallo" (Skylanders) series), You need to make more efforts in marketing to maintain the same outstanding performance. With the addition of "Storm Hero" (Heroes of the Storm) and the Watch pioneer (Overwatch), they will join the stone legend (Hearthstone) to attract a spectacular number of users to blizzard. After the release of the King of Draenor (Warlords of Draenor), the number of subscribers to the World of Warcraft will continue to grow longer than the previous one.

After the delay, EA will reap a better sales figure on the battlefield: Tough battle (Battlefield hardline), but the sports series developed by EA will be of great help or harm to the company's fortunes throughout the year. Although the FIFA series and the "Crazy Rugby" series performed well in 2014, the NBA series and the NHL series had a rather bumpy 2014, and it remains to be seen whether the performance of the series is still up to the level they apply.

"Evolution" (evolve) will become Take-two Interactive in the New Year's hot game, but the continued sale of "Grand Theft Auto 5" (Grand Theft) will also become the company in 2015 a big contributor. Ubisoft has prepared a strong new lineup for 2015, but it really takes a little more effort to ensure that the work is on schedule and the quality level achieves the desired goal.

More gaming companies will become members of the 1 billion dollar income club in 2015, led by Riot Games and wargaming, followed by Supercell, and Machine zone may reach that level in 2015. Zynga also wants to regain its position, but to do so, more hot new games are needed. We're going to see a lot of mobile gaming companies achieving or approaching the goal of earning $1 billion trillion, and the game will generate more revenue from mobile games than ever before.

Summary

2015 will be a good year for the gaming industry and the overall growth of the industry will be very strong. There will be a number of works to be postponed, there will be one or two works unexpectedly Jap, there will be some works become an unexpected hotspot. In 2015, we could see a lot more than $1 billion trillion in acquisitions or injections of money, and in order to take full advantage of today's strong growth opportunities in the gaming industry, funds will continue to flow into the industry.