Deloitte’s 2023 media and entertainment industry outlook brings gaming to the fore. Such is the significance of gaming to the broader video sector, that the accounting giant’s latest M&E research paper has done away with a dedicated video games chapter – instead folding gaming into the global outlook, for the first time. Unfortunately, the measly nine-page report does a poor job of framing the gaming marketplace, and provides flaccid supporting evidence as to why investors should pivot to gaming. Deloitte’s take is void of use cases, references to specific technologies, and reads like the authors did not speak to a single expert in the gaming sector during the process of cobbling this paper together. Having read the outlook, Faultline now…