Anivision Podcast: Episode 358

This week the Anivision hosts have an in-depth discussion about the latest report from IGN’s Gamer Trends, they give their impressions on Donkey Kong Bananza, and they take a look back at the Rascal Dreams of Bunny Girl Senpai Movies.

• IGN Launches Gamer Trends Platform (Games Industry.biz) (1:30)
  
  
  
  • Reddit Breakdown by Megaapplepie
  • 93% of Gen Alpha prefer playing on mobile, according to IGN’s segmentation study. But preference for mobile is actually growing for Millennials, too, with 32% calling it their preferred device.
  • Daily concurrent user numbers have grown in Roblox from 3.8 million in June 2022 to more than 25 million in June 2025.
  • Over the same period, Fortnite has grown from 1.2 million to 1.77 million concurrents – with occasional blips, like when 15.3 million players logged on for the Marvel Galactus event.
  • Millennials and Gen X tend to be loyal to platforms or genres – now, the younger generations tend to be more loyal to specific experiences. They no longer identify as gamers – they identify as players of a specific game.
    
    
    
    • What game do we identify ourselves as players of or do you see yourself as platform specific?
    • Can we fault companies for pursuing the live service Model when gamers are becoming more loyal to specific games?
    
    
    
    
  • Every two years, IGN conducts a study into audience attitudes towards older games, and the findings have shown that people are increasingly looking back. Now, 71% agree that they’re feeling more and more nostalgic for franchises that were around when they were kids.
  • Gen Z and Gen Alpha now expect every song and TV show to be available to them instantly, and they expect the same for video games.
  
  
  
  
• Donkey Kong Bananza Impressions (50:45)
• Rascal Dreams of Bunny Girl Senpai Discussion (1:08:35)