This guy I met at The Game Awards 2022 is helping me with predictions.
This guy I met at The Game Awards 2022 is helping me with predictions.
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Predictions for gaming in 2023 | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 27 min

Predictions are as difficult and foolish to make as ever. The year 2022 had a different rhythm than we expected, after two solid years of growth for gaming in 2020 and 2021. Still, it remained one of the most unpredictable in gaming history. As I learned during the pandemic, I now think about predictions with both a sense of hope and a sense of dread.

The pandemic threw off our ability to predict what will happen life, and it did the same in the game industry. Game companies had a record year in 2020, and I wondered if it was a one-time bump thanks to the coronavirus forcing lockdowns. People played games to survive, repair their social lives, and distract themselves.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.