Too Long; Didn't Read
The past two years have been filled with much hype but little traction around blockchain games. While many “general purpose” smart contract platforms have launched, the market is trending towards use-case-specific platforms. These “first-generation blockchain gaming platforms” exhibit similar characteristics to the early days of gaming consoles (a new creative industry, a two-sided market, and constraints around compute and storage). The console gaming industry has been around since the 1970s and offers rich data for anyone seeking to gauge the success of different market approaches.