Gaming Platforms with NFT support: Enjin (Efinity) vs Flow vs Immutable X

So DeFi exploded, then NFTs exploded, and lots of smart people think the next big thing is gaming NFTs, games here you truly own your assets (inventory, skins, characters…). Reasonable to say Blockchain and Gaming are on a collision course or that is already happening in Play 2 Earn games (Axie Infinity, Cryptoblades…).

As someone who wants to make gains, I have been researching the platforms that might enable developers to release games benefiting from NFT capabilities.

Dapper Labs, a Canadian company, hit gold with Cryptokitties and the ERC-721 in 2017-2018, that was the first time NFTs went mainstream in a game like environment, but it was soon discovered is Ethereum is not fit for these kind of high number, fast, and cheap fee transactions. After some research, they came up with their own blockchain called FLOW, which they believe will be the premiere NFT and gaming platform. They have crazy VC backing, amazing partnerships (NBA, Ubisoft, UFC, Dr.Seuss…) and their NBA topshot has been very successful, they're looking for the next killer app.

Next we have Enjin, I was very bullish on these guys three years ago because it seemed they had the right vision and road map to take over the blockchain gaming world. So they built on top of Ethereum, released their on wallet, a new NFT protocol ERC-1155 that is more fit for gaming items and inventories, and few SDKs for gaming development engines (notably Unity and Godot). They attracted a bunch of indie developers who started infusing their in game items with Enjin token, but no game releases were made because of high Ethereum gas fees. in the last NFT boom few months ago hen it became clear that ETH 2.0 is still faraway, they released to pieces of information: They created JumpNet, a proof of authority (read centralized) Ethereum side chain to have fast, cheap transactions, and they announced that they will be building Efinity, a brand new NFT focused blockchain on Polkadot. They made it sound as if it was all planned and that all these chains (Enjin, JumpNet, and Efinity) will work in synergy. What I read between the lines is that they gave up on Ethereum and are starting from Scratch on Polkadot, and are betting Polkadot will be the next Ethereum.

Last one is Immutable X, which I know the least about. Their bet is that most traffic for NFTs , gaming, andDeFi will stay on Ethereum, and are building a layer 2 platform focused on NFTs, they have their own game, Gods Unchained, a digital collectible card game, which is a smart move that will enable them to test their own tools, and I know that Illuvium, what looks like very visually appealing Pokemon like game, are developing on Immutable X as well.

I believe these are the main contenders for "ready to develop on" platforms for the next wave of blockchain games, which I believe will be more in the vein of AAA games with actual fun game play but with blockchain elements for item ownership and transfers. Not the grind to earn model we have now. I'm aware there other contenders (Ultra, Seascape….) but it looks they're in very early stages.

Any input on which platform is most positioned to catch this market segment will be highly appreciated.