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What's Happening in the Video Game Industry in 2020
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We have done a lot of work and gathered information about what we can expect from the gaming industry in 2020. Things should be pretty exciting with the arrival of the next generation of consoles, great new video games and maybe VR 2.0!
The outgoing year had every reason to be one of the quietest in the history of the video game industry. The sunset of the era of the past generation; last breather before the debut of new consoles next year. Meanwhile, it turned out that there are many reasons for excitement. Epic Games has caused a civil war in the PC market. Blizzard effectively proved, if anyone doubted it, that games don't exist in a vacuum, that they are part of politics. Several financial misfires in service games forced major publishers to rethink their strategy.
The echoes of the past twelve months will be reflected in the future of the industry, both far and near, and we can try to predict how it will look. That's exactly what we're doing today - on the following pages of this article, you'll find our predictions for the most important things that could happen in the video game industry in 2020.
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The new generation of consoles
The eighth generation of consoles has been delayed in the market, like the seven-year era of the PlayStation 3. The debut of the Wii U in 2012 or the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2013, it was too long ago, next year will be seven and eight years of the current generation, respectively. Which, thankfully, both Sony and Microsoft have already revealed a lot, and barring unforeseen disasters, we'll be witnessing the future of gaming at Christmas 2020.
The design of the retail PlayStation 5 should be different from the development kits. Fortunately.
Microsoft, having overwhelmed it with the first Xbox One announcements, promises to be pretty conservative with the ninth generation. We will still play with tablets, buy games in boxes or digitally, pay for a multiplayer subscription. Boot times should be noticeably improved - the new consoles will finally have standard SSDs for much faster runtimes. Because of this, making coffee while loading will probably no longer be an option.
In addition to the obvious hardware upgrade, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox (simply; after a bit of confusion, we already know that this is what Microsoft's next console will be called) will deliver technological innovations such as Raytracing or 8K resolution support. They also talk about frame rates up to 120fps, but those promises are best taken with a grain of salt. People who aren't just looking for something new will also appreciate the fact that both the Xbox and PS5 will be backwards compatible with their predecessors. In the case of Microsoft, with all previous Xbox. Sony has only confirmed compatibility with the PlayStation 4 so far.
Scarlett Xbox will support games from the original Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
As you might expect, Nintendo is not in this competition, and so far only rumors indicate that they are working on something new. Little birds reveal that the Japanese giant is set to release a more powerful version of the Nintendo Switch next year, similar to the PlayStation 4 Pro, which has stronger guts and thus can better organize the fight against the competition.
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