How gaming can get back to balanced growth | The DeanBeat

This week, we had 42 sessions and 97 speakers at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event. And many of them spoke around our theme of getting the game industry back to growth. Thank you all for coming and listening.

David Glass and I came up with the theme months ago on the hope that the game industry, which has seen 2.5 years of layoffs (with 33,000 jobs eliminated), would return to growth. But during the course of the day-and-a-half event, I began to realize what it really meant.

During the Game Changers session (where we ended our conference with the announcement of the list of the top 25 game startups), Lightspeed partner Moritz Baier-Lentz asked me for a prediction of the future. And I said I wanted the game industry to get back to balanced growth.

Balanced growth