Andreessen Horowitz's Six Trends Revolutionizing Games

An absolute behemoth, the video games industry generated close to $120B in revenue for 2019. It is set on a compounded growth topping near $300B by 2025.

Identifying emerging subsets of the industry categorized in mobile, console, and PC, a16z believes that the next generation of games will be different:

✅ Games are the next social network.
✅ "Games-as-a-service” shaped by user feedback.
✅ X-platform play will exponentially grow multiplayer games at a faster rate.
✅ Game discovery is driven via social discovery by way of influencers.
✅ Developers will shift to a VC model that enables them to maintain ownership over their IP.
✅ UGC promotes games to scale quickly & cost-effectively.

SOURCE: https://a16z.com/2019/10/16/trends-revolutionizing-games/