After another year of layoffs, flops, and endless live service games what were the positives in 2024 and what could they mean for 2025?
It’s not been a good couple of years for the video games industry. Nintendo and most of the other big Japanese publishers have carried on as usual but, as we’ve explored in our round-up of the year’s biggest news stories, it’s been nothing but disaster after disaster in the West. Yes, great new games are still being released every month but a glimpse behind the curtain reveals an industry without direction or leadership. Or any sense of shame as to what has happened this year.
We made these same observations during last year’s review of the year and very little has changed in terms of the quality of stewardship from Sony, Microsoft, or any of the other Western publishers. There were more layoffs this year than the last and, in most cases, not even the barest flicker of guilt from any of the execs responsible.
That’s unsurprising given that…
