The future of video gaming: How the threat of regulation, rather than market demand, will determine the future

Peter Steidl

Unlike many other industry sectors, the already-booming video gaming sector can expect to be advantaged by the current rise in consumer uncertainty and financial pressures.

The massive disruption we saw globally during 2022 through war, the climate crisis, the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain interruptions, and inflation exposed many cracks in our financial and economic ecosystems and represents a continuing threat to the way we live and do business. Disruption, uncertainty, and insecurity are everywhere in day-to-day life, in commerce and industry, and in government, and further massive shocks are not out of the question.

A Fear Economy is emerging from the rubble of the benevolent world that gave us growth for many decades, and I expect 2023 to be no more...

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