Gaming industry in February

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TOP Five February News

• In early March, action game?Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty?is releasing on all relevant platforms. It will feature several resolution options for consoles as well as quite benevolent PC system requirements that need “just” GTX 1650 as the minimum. As for the consoles, all options use temporary reconstruction rendering which helps keeping the framerate and resolution stable. Resolution mode for PS5 and XSX runs natively at 1440p with 60FPS target. It is not as stable as the resolution option though, which runs at 60FPS and 1296p – a common resolution for FPS modes
• Sony held a?State of Play?during which the Japanese company showed several new titles for PlayStation VR 2 that came out at the end of February. Moreover, it was announced that the racing game?Gran Turismo 7?will get a VR version featuring specially optimized HDR tone mapping, foveated rendering from the eye-tracking PS VR feature and dynamic 3D audio support.
• Out of nowhere, Nintendo announced and released?Metroid Prime Remastered?exclusively for Nintendo Switch. It features crisper lighting effects, brighter colours and of course higher resolution and framerate in comparison to the first GameCube release in 2002. From the comparison videos, we can see the heads-up of?both versions, showing that the new version has been rebuilt from the ground-up.
• Ukrainian studio Frogwares had to delay its upcoming game?Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?due to electricity shortages. "We had been trying so hard to make our planned release window, but the continual interruptions to power on top of the frequent missile attacks since October meant we had to replan and reschedule almost every month," said Frogwares head of publishing Sergiy Oganesyan. The situation is explained in a video the studio published. The new release date is schedule for the end of March.
• Hogwarts Legacy released in early February and since then, it managed to sell over?12 million units. Time taken into account, it is doing significantly better than for example Elden Ring, which as of the end of February managed to sell?20 million copies. However, it is not doing as well as Grand Theft Auto V, as from 2013, it achieved over?175 million units.

Statistics of the Month

Annual growth of?consumer spending?on video game subscriptions worldwide from 2021 to 2025

Chart of the Month

The Global?Games Market?Per Segment, 2022

Quote of the Month

"Like most games these days, the whole thing is way too bloated."???????????????????????

Jason Schreier?on Hogwarts Legacy’s content and the state of RPG genre today.?

Number of the Month

18,5 million units of?Xbox Series X|S?have been sold worldwide.

Photo of the Month

Released in August 2018,?Vigor?is a free-to-play survival shooter originally developed for Xbox One by the Czech studio Bohemia Interactive. Later on, it got released on PlayStation consoles and Nintendo Switch as well. The goal of the game is to stay alive and upgrade an abandoned shelter that will protect the player against the harsh environment, surviving longer than other players.

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What’s Going on in Fanatic Games

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