2024: Predictions for the Year Ahead

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The last couple of days of 2023 are upon us, and that means we can click over to a new year of gaming news. 2024 is going to be a quieter year in terms of games, but will it be as quiet in terms of news?

Without any further ado, I’m going to take a look at what might happen over the next 12 months.

It seems for a couple of years there we had a bevy of well-performing cross-gen titles that were fairly pleasing but not terribly ambitious. And then I blinked and now every game seems to run at sub-1080p and less than 30fps and there’s nothing we can do about it.

I hope some of this is teething issues. If the current state of gaming requires a 4090 to work in any decent manner then many people are just going to drop off.

A few more Unreal 5 test cases will release this year, and that’s when we’ll see what we’re really looking at. First party things will be under particular scrutiny, with Hellblade 2 being chief among them.

But whether those games deliver technically or not, there are many other games that won’t. Get used to poor performance guys – at least until the next round of consoles release (and maybe even then).

Come on Nintendo. This is getting silly now.

I know you’re still selling a billion Switchs a year. Probably to the same guys that keep Grand Theft Auto V at the top of the charts.

But enough is enough. It’s time to announce and release the Switch 2. And while I’d bet my kidney on the former happening in 2024, I’m not so confident about the latter. Nintendo do favour an end-of-year release, and they’ll want to be in shops in time for Christmas. That’s especially true if they have a Breath of the Wild level game to release alongside it and are banking on hype and scarcity to get them into 2025.

But delays happen,