Up to 25 survival? We have a rough start on us The Deanbeat

Last year the saying survived until the 25th game industry. The hope was that things would get better after a very hard year for game spells and player dolders. Now we could survive through survive until 26.

So far we had in 2025 this year in the first month of 2025 19 wild companies are announced Closes or layoffs with a total of at least 500 lost jobs.

Just yesterday, the Midnight Society closed the dead drop game and canceled. That could have been foreseen because Dr. The company separated disrespect, which he went to Twitch after allegations of inappropriate discussions with a minor from his time before. Dozens of jobs are affected.

We have also seen an unspecified number of jobs affected by changes in the bioware of Electronic Arts, which are weaker than expected sales for Dragon Age: Veilguard. And Ubisoft had a further discharge that affects 185 people in three studios. It is still a restless company and still has more than 18,000 employees.

I don’t think this means that we have as bad for a year as in 2024, when more than 15,000 jobs were lost in games. This year the Game Resource Champion Amir Satvat estimates that we could lose a further 9,800 jobs in 2025, but the setting should get into a better balance again.

Sony just mixed His management for the entire company (Hiroki Totoki is the new CEO) and the Playstation Division (Hideaki Nishino will be the only CEO). In the latter group, this means that a financial type take over the takeover with a reduced role for the creative/developer manager Hermen Hulst. I am not interpreting this as good news for game jobs.

Microsoft had an outstanding line -up with games like Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones and The Great Circle in the fourth quarter. But it had a weak quarter, and Indiana Jones only had about four million players, a relatively small percentage of his overall samples of the game by game pass.

According to Microsoft, game turnover decreases by 7% in the fourth quarter (its second business quarter on December 31), which is usually the strongest quarter. The sales of Xbox content and services increased by 2%, which is due to the growth of the Xbox game passport. Microsoft paid 75 billion US dollars for Activision Blizzard and acquired Call of Duty in business. But in the first quarter, when Call of Duty was available on a game pass, this category only grow 2%? It’s not that good.

In addition, the Xbox hardware turnover decreased by 29% in the quarter compared to the previous year. This is a steep decline that indicates that Microsoft is extended by console. But this console is currently nowhere in sight, and Microsoft’s leaked papers suggested that the day will only be in 2028.

Intel reported a loss for the quarter and lost his CEO Pat Gelsinger. However, his replacement stated that in the first quarter they expected a Breakeven result and expressed confidence in the company’s 18A manufacturing process. Intel’s weakness was beneficial from AMD and Nvidia, but it is not good for the United States to have such a weakness of the largest domestic chip manufacturer.

The bright side?

Go good things going? Yes. Some fundamental positive movements occur with the restoration of game acquisitions and financing Drake Star Partners.

Microsoft can still be seen as a hero. In the first half of the year it starts in February, the South of Midnight in April in the south of midnight and the Doom of ID Software, in February. NVIDIA starts its graphics cards of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series and drives a cycle for a PC games.

The Switch 2 comes from Nintendo this year, but some players fear that he will not go much beyond a larger screen and better graphics. And Grand Theft Auto VI will come this year at some point and it could come out at 100 US dollars and increase the price for games so that they could catch up with inflation. If this price rubs off in other titles, it would be great for the industry.

In the technology industry we saw how Tech shares were shaken by the announcement of the Chinese KI startup DeepseekWhich was supposedly able to create a competitive AI model to create with open ais chatt for only 6 million US narrative is challenged) – while other billions output for Nvidia GPUs to create their models.

The announcement appeared by NVIDIA shares by 15%and only took a few hundred billion dollars on the stock exchange. It is not good if the result is to be that investors become Bärisch in the entire technology sector. In playing, developers are afraid that AI will accept her work.

And Donald Trump announced that He plans to place tariffs On semiconductors who come not only from China, but also from our allied Taiwan. Just 10 days after the new administration, I fear that the Trump demolition ball will reach the economy and the game industry. The Consumer Technology Association fears that a tariff trading war could increase the game console prices by 40%, laptop prices by 46%and prices for smartphones by 26%.

I don’t count myself among the pessimists, but I’m a realist. Nevertheless, I hope that we have some outstanding games ahead of us this year, starting with the Civilization VII, which will come from Take-Two Interactive’s Firaxis for the PC on February 11th. And funny games are the best way to combat a tough game industry. We know that games will always have winners and losers. Let’s just hope that the good news begins to outweigh the bad ones.