As recent events have shown, this year has not been one of the most remarkable for the video game industry. But now, Ampere Analysis, an analytics firm that has focused on the video game industry on more than one occasion, has shared a new report focused on the market’s turnaround this year to show us the historic milestone: the first year in a long time that the industry will decline.

This was gathered from Eurogamer who share the exact numbers of this analysis in which it is estimated Video Games Market to Enter $188,000 Million Globally During 2022a number that, while really high, would be below the $191,000 million that was generated in 2021.

«After two years of great expansion (2020 and 2021), the video game market will slow down a bit in 2022 due to various factors.said Piers Harding Rolls, director of research at Ampere Analysis.

Some factors that do a reference to the strong (unreal) growth caused during the pandemic, when users increased their investment in video games; but it also meant a paradigm shift in the development of new titleswith numerous delays already reaching dates for 2023 and beyond.

On the other hand, we have also experienced serious shortage crisis which caused not only the absence of the device from both next-gen consoles but a sharp increase in the prices of some basic components for this sector such as graphics cards. Fortunately, it seems that the regulation of mining is already succeeding in returning us to a normal state.

In fact, although the 2022 figure was the first market decline in more than five years, We are not facing a recession, but a simple “stumbling”. And it is because the analyst herself wanted to spread the message that there is nothing to fear, she already guesses The video game market will grow again during 2023with estimated revenues of $195,000 million, setting a new record.