Saturday Soapbox: Expert Business Predictions For 2013

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2013 looks to be a challenging year for the games industry. With no new PlayStation or Xbox on the immediate horizon, anyone already queueing up has a long wait ahead of them. Even titans of the industry will find themselves squeezed as the cost of developing games rises without vast floods of new money to pay. Most importantly, the first real wave of Kickstarter games will be landing, determining the fate of crowd-sourcing in the wake of the Mayan apocalypse.
But those are obvious predictions. What else to expect? Here's the future as laid out by the finest crystal ball our local Poundland had to offer. Accuracy almost certainly guaranteed, maybe. Probably. Give or take a few details.
January. As the industry slowly comes to term with the fact that free-to-play isn't the guaranteed license to print money it's sometimes treated as, even the most successful games begin stepping away from micro-transactions in favour of an even more profitable revenue source: ageing billionaires.
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