In this week's edition of The Game Business, we dive into whether the VR industry can survive Meta's change in strategy, featuring @cassiacurran.bsky.social www.thegamebusiness.com/p/has-meta-j...

I'm running a panel on Investment Trends at the AI and Games Conference next week - genuinely excited and curious to learn from the investors about what's happening in this space.

Didn’t realise I was mentioned in the Guardian’s Pushing Buttons newsletter until I saw this! I should really set up some Google alerts for my name…

Want to know how to estimate unit sales for a Meta Quest game? -If it was released in July 2021 or later, then multiply the # of ratings by 61. -If it was released before, multiply the # of ratings by 121. Some refer to these ratios as Curran ratios, which is embarrassing, but I encourage 😅

Meta Horizon Worlds not doing the best job with protecting copyrighted IP

I’m seeing a lot of game companies start going the “release stuff early and get market signal” route, and I hope that players don’t get tired of it…

VR games development has suddenly turned into mobile F2P, hypercasual style game dev. Launch many products quickly and iterate on what gets traction. New Folder (I am Cat), Wooster (Animal Company) are finding success with this route. nDreams won’t be the only VR company that goes this direction…

Meta's Quest store changes cut revenue for many devs by 50-80%! With ~30 million headsets sold, their pivot away from gaming could open huge opportunities for savvy competitors, who could grab top studios with exclusives & challenge Quest's gaming dominance in XR.

I'm carrying out my annual survey of XR game developers, and I'm uncovering the disastrous impact of last year's changes in the Meta Horizon XR store on independent developers. I'll be sharing a lot on this in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye on my posts.

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