Forecasts are never easy; this is because most of the time near-future forecasts are specifically wrong but generally right. One place to start is to look back in the previous year and extrapolate what could happen in the forthcoming year. 2021 was not short of ground-breaking news for the video game industry, below is a summary of the biggest news items.

Q3 financials are always hard to read because often there is no underlying trend with the summer season usually the quietest in the video game year. The financial results for calendar Q3 2021 make it one of those years.