News inside jeuxvideo.com What resolutions for the new year 2025 of video games? LaPetitePelle draws JeuxVideo.com n°557
Published on 05/01/2025 at 08:01
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With the new year also comes new resolutions. With the many upheavals that video games have experienced in recent times, LaPetitePelle wishes you all the best with very particular ambitions!
2025, the future…
If, for many, 2025 will be (if everything goes according to plan) above all the year of GTA VIthe whole thing could very well have its share of surprises. With new hardware proposals, notably with the PS5 Pro and the next Nintendo Switch 2, the race for technology should intensify further. In addition, recent years have demonstrated the growing aversion of publishers to original IP, preferring to rely on pre-established licenses. the exploitation of which may be less risky than for an original work.
Video games are becoming more and more expensive to produce, in addition to being designed on development times which only seem to be getting longer. Far from learning from this that they need less ambitious but more original productions, the biggest players in the industry seem convinced that the solution lies more in the generalization of the game-service. The economic model actually has the advantage, when the work concerned is successful, to bring regular, and sometimes significant, income to its publisher.
Nothing changes
At any rate, there is no doubt that the industry will once again experience many upheavals in 2025. Sony has already tried to inaugurate the “luxury” console with its PS5 Pro, whose “all-inclusive” price (with disc player) approaches a thousand euros. With the upcoming announcement of the Switch 2, many are waiting to see if Nintendo will finally be interested in increasing the technical capabilities of its next console. If the probability of seeing the Japanese manufacturer enter the power race remains quite low, many fans expect real technological improvements from the Japanese firm.
Above all, it will be the practices of the public that will be the most interesting to observe, since it is these practices that influence industry trends. So, the year 2025 could very well see the confirmation of the international appeal for Asian AAA outside Japan but also that of the game-service which, despite criticism, continues to attract hundreds of thousands of players by collecting several billion dollars per year.
