Current gaming trends include genres, platforms, and monetization models. Genre trends have included first-person shooters, zombie games, and survival games. Platform trends have moved from dedicated consoles to PCs and mobile devices. New monetization models like early access, crowdfunding, and virtual reality aim to lower costs and engage customers, but come with risks if games are not successful. Overall, the gaming industry constantly follows and drives new trends to find profitable models.

1. Current market trends
Since the start of gaming the industry has always been selling games that are trending for
example at one time fps arena shooters were the most popular and soon after it was over
throne by zombie games but that’s just genres there are also trends in how to buy games
and on the consoles that we play on the industry will follow the trends to make games that
sell however there are companies that try to create a new trends to make their game fit in
the market this is how the zombie trend came to be
Game genre trends have been the focus of game developers the whole point is to ether
create alter or follow a trend one of the biggest and long lasting trends is zombie games it
started with call of duty world at war the game had a secret bonus mode at the end called
Nazi zombies that quickly became the focus of the game dlc was made to improve and add
maps to the new game mode as time passed other companies made dedicated zombie
games such as dead rising, war z and one of the biggest survival games of all time that
started as a mod for the game arma 2 and quickly became a standalone game adored by
hundreds of people
The way we buy games has also change and I would count it as a trend as if you want to sell
a game in today’s time the best way is to see online give it to your customers by the internet
it is easier and costs less for packaging but there are some new ways to sell your game the
most used one at this time is early access this were we you sell your game for a cheaper
price and release it in an early stage like alpha and use the public as testers this cuts the
production costs and helps you connect with the community but it also holds a lot of
problems as some games will use this and flop so the customer losses money on this and it
makes the systemlook bad there is some changes needed to make this way of selling games
work but it is a good concept
Now the things we use top play games have also come along way the most known is console
a dedicated machine for playing games this is the most used way of playing games but it is
flawed the games made for it are limited to that console and the new ones get released
every 10 or so years this means that there is not a lot of development also they have to limit
the graphics they can get as the hardware may be too big for the console so instead we have
started to turn to another way of gaming using professional gaming pc the way this works is
buying or making a pc that is capable of running the best games on it this way is better as
game devs have the ability to make the game look and feel better but the pc is very
expensive but at least you have control on upgrading and what you want this is quickly
becoming the new way to play game but there is also a new contender mobile games the
ability to play games on tablets and phone the games may be smaller and not as advanced
due to mobiles and tablets not having the power to run them but it is more particle and

2. gives you the option to play games out of the house only time will tell what will become
more popular
There are many more things that are trending and that will pass some of which are ways of
making games one of these ways that is very popular is using sites like kick starter this is
where the game dev will show his idea and customers and fans will give him a
pelage/investment for him to make the game with and they will get the game free with
some bonuses for the sponsorship this is a great way to make your game but like early
access it is flawed in that id the game fails then people have paid for a flop but it is not as
bad as their money is given back
One of the new ways to play games is virtual reality and only now has it made a
breakthrough thanks to the oculus rift a VR headset it has made the industry look at VR
differently it is now become a possibility and companies have already made their own
versions of the headset to get a hold on the market but none will beat the oculus rift the
games you can play are limited but growing soon all games will have an option to play the
oculus rift and some companies are making games just for the headset this proves to be a
big thing that will soon over throw the market