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Currently, the video game industry is one of the largest that exist. The sales numbers of these organizations are very large and most people in the world have played any game on Xbox or PS4, and the industry doesn’t seem to stop with anything.

That is why many tendencies have appeared over the years, these trends have constituted around a business model quite attractive for many users and which led the largest lists of benefits. Here are some trends in the video game world.

VR

vr gamer - 3 Trends That Will Change the Future of Videogames

There is some fear that video game technology, as far as graphical visualization concerns, is close to reaching the top of evolution and there are already images of games that border this type of rendering.

For this reason, technologies such as virtual reality (VR) have begun to resurface in the gaming industry as an alternative, where marking devices such as Oculus Rift or the Sony Morpheus project, are turning into the path that much of the medium-term industrycould take.

Being able to enter a game is, undoubtedly, something that every gamer expects to try one day, since the virtual reality games offer a different, completely new experience, where you can feel that, in the end, the user is really the protagonist of the story.

As part of this phenomenon, we could also include augmented reality (AR), with which the user’s gaming experience is enhanced with additional data via digital overlay in real-time.

Cloud Gaming

cloud paper - 3 Trends That Will Change the Future of Videogames

Thanks to ever-faster internet connections, the philosophy of cloud computing has begun to gain momentum in the video game industry. The cloud gaming, or game in the cloud, is a mode of play that allows the user to interact online via streaming on their PC or mobile device, while the game runs on the server of the developer company and is transmitted directly to the devices with access to the server through the application.

This allows access to the games without the need of powerful devices and so the processing capacity that the user has does not have to be so high, because the server of the company is the system that is running the game with all the needs of processing that are required.

Security and Mobile Devices

laptop and smartphone - 3 Trends That Will Change the Future of Videogames

With the market boom of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the battle of the consoles among major brands (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo) has been intensified, in a race to create a secondary gaming device appealing for the players.

A practical example is the first-person games, which in this second-screen scenario allow access to additional screens without losing this point of view.

It is an additional tool for players that allow complementing the gaming experience provided by the Xbox consoles, converting devices like smartphones or tablets into new game controllers, plus it adds more security to personal accounts.

With these new trends, the future of video games is practically ensured. There will be new technologies to help the industry grow constantly and new titles and types of virtual security are also being achieved to support players and their accounts.

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