Top 10 biggest video game news stories of 2024 – from Xbox to Concord
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2024 is over and once again turmoil has ravaged the video games industry, but what were the biggest stories of the year and how will they impact 2025?. The worst thing we can say about 2024 is that it wasn’t very different to 2023. It still had all the same problems, with constant job layoffs and a constant lack of big announcements. Publishers were still obsessed with live service games, despite most of them still flopping, and we never did learn anything new about the Switch 2 and GTA 6.
![[Phil Spencer and Mike Ybarra smiling at Blizzard offices]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234142097-6271.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
By the very end of the year, after an unusually good The Game Awards, there were reasons to be optimistic for 2025, but the unfortunate truth is that for most of 2024 we were still in a holding pattern, although what exactly we were supposed to be waiting for still isn’t clear.
![[Xbox on a phone from a new TV advert]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SEI_229719803-983b.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
If Xbox and PlayStation have some great masterplan it really wasn’t obvious, but let us remind you of the biggest stories of the year and you can draw your own conclusions about what they all add up to…. Almost the very first news story of the year was a rumour that Xbox exclusives were going to start appearing on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. The fan response to this was predictably emotional, with most either denying it or accusing Microsoft of betrayal. In what became a pattern for the rest of the year, Microsoft allowed the speculation to drag on for weeks until they finally announced that four games were indeed coming to PlayStation 5 and, in some cases, Switch. Although for no good reason they refused to say which ones at first.
![[PS5 Pro console]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SEI_228853993-cd63.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
