Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev summed up in a publication for App2Top.ru the results of the outgoing year.
Event of the Year
It is difficult to single out one significant event, but everything that happened in the field of virtual reality this year deserves special attention.
The first consumer version of the helmet, the Samsung Gear VR, has gone on sale. It was instantly snapped up at Amazon and Best Buy, which once again shows how popular the VR theme is now.
However, this popularity is largely due to the very affordable price of the device – $ 99.99.
Also this year we saw the first controllers for VR helmets. They look interesting and promising. Gesture recognition, tracking the position of hands in space, a feedback system – all this should significantly expand the list of game genres and applications that support virtual reality.
Separately, it is worth noting the rapid development of esports. Every year it gathers more and more stadiums and attracts more and more investments. The most important events in the world of esports this year were the purchase of MTG ESL and DreamHack by the Swedish media giant, as well as the investment of $100 million by Alisher Usmanov’s USM Holdings in the company Virtus.pro .
Samsung Gear VRTrend of the year
The trend of the year can be called the increase in the price of attracting a mobile user. The competition in this market is now incredibly high. In pursuit of high-quality traffic, developers and publishers are constantly raising rates, and over the past year the average price of a loyal user has almost doubled. The mobile market is “maturing”.
Achievement of the Year and disappointment of the year
New Battlefront. Incredibly beautiful, technological and spectacular, undoubtedly, is the achievement of the year. At the same time, the volume of content and scale disappointed many fans of the “old” games of the Battlefront series. A paradox.
Star Wars: BattlefrontGame of the Year
2015 is definitely the year of Fallout 4.
This demonstrates a long–established trend – new parts of old games consistently collect cash. There are few fundamentally new successful projects coming out recently. So this year: Fallout 4, The Witcher 3, Doom, CoD, Battlefield, Need for Speed … new parts and reissues of long-known and well-established games can be listed for a very long time.
Fallout 4Year for the company
This year has been eventful for our company. We have released several major updates for War Thunder. We have added more than a hundred new tanks and planes to the game, dozens of maps and missions, destructibility of buildings with Nvidia PhysX, interactive water with Nvidia GameWorks.
We also started the transition to a new version of our Dagor Engine, released on new platforms – Android and Steam OS. It is clear that we do not plan to stop there.
We also announced a brand new project – Crossout. This game has already received the title of the most innovative of the presented at E3 2015 (according to mmorpg.com ). Its mechanics are unique. Plus, given that the post-apocalyptic setting is at the peak of popularity, players are looking forward to the release of the game next year.
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