That is precisely what happened. Honestly what did they think was going to happen? Trends in technology has always had this in store for consoles. Nowadays they’re kept alive artificially like this, with exclusives or whatever. They serve no purpose anymore, the console wars are over and the PC won.
It’s more than that even, MS and Sony switched to an x86 platform for the consoles specifically to make it easier to develop cross-platform. Valve was very vocal about how hard The Orange Box was to port to the PS3 and that they wouldn’t develop for that platform again. This wasn’t a trend, it was a conscious choice and I genuinely don’t know what the goal was if not this. I was convinced that Xbox was going to become a Steam clone until recently anyway and I think the jury is still out on if MS will ever make another console themselves.
If the goal is to make it more exclusive then they should switch back to Power PC processors at least and offer other reasons to use a console over a PC.
Top 10 selling games of 2025 according to Alina/VG Insights:
#
Game
Total (M)
PC (M)
Console (M)
PC %
Split source
1
Battlefield 6
20.0
11.4
8.6
57%
Alinea (Steam 56.7 / PS5 23.7 / Xbox 19.6)
2
R.E.P.O.
20.0
20.0
0.0
100%
PC/Steam exclusive
3
PEAK
16.0
16.0
0.0
100%
PC/Steam exclusive
4
Mario Kart World
14.0
0.0
14.0
0%
Nintendo official (Switch 2)
5
Pokémon Legends: Z-A
12.3
0.0
12.3
0%
Nintendo official (Switch/2)
6
EA Sports FC 26
12.0
1.0
11.0
~8%
Alinea (92%+ console)
7
ARC Raiders
11.0
6.4
4.6
58%
Alinea (7M of 12M on Steam)
8
Monster Hunter Wilds
11.0
6.4
4.6
~58%
Capcom / Alinea
9
Schedule I
9.0
9.0
0.0
100%
PC/Steam exclusive
10
NBA 2K26
8.0
0.6
7.4
~8%
Take-Two / VG Insights
TOTAL
133.3
70.8
62.5
~53%
Pc pulled ahead because of its exclusives last year but it wasn’t a blowout. And if you take pc and console exclusives out of the mix, console was at 58% with PC at 42%
All this shows is people who game casually still buy consoles. Almost every game thats available on both platforms beats it out on PC. Plus this only includes Steam sales. Look at what beat PC, Pokemon a Nintendo exclusive and fucken sports games bro.
That is precisely what happened. Honestly what did they think was going to happen? Trends in technology has always had this in store for consoles. Nowadays they’re kept alive artificially like this, with exclusives or whatever. They serve no purpose anymore, the console wars are over and the PC won.
It’s more than that even, MS and Sony switched to an x86 platform for the consoles specifically to make it easier to develop cross-platform. Valve was very vocal about how hard The Orange Box was to port to the PS3 and that they wouldn’t develop for that platform again. This wasn’t a trend, it was a conscious choice and I genuinely don’t know what the goal was if not this. I was convinced that Xbox was going to become a Steam clone until recently anyway and I think the jury is still out on if MS will ever make another console themselves.
If the goal is to make it more exclusive then they should switch back to Power PC processors at least and offer other reasons to use a console over a PC.
What?
Top 10 selling games of 2025 according to Alina/VG Insights:
Pc pulled ahead because of its exclusives last year but it wasn’t a blowout. And if you take pc and console exclusives out of the mix, console was at 58% with PC at 42%
All this shows is people who game casually still buy consoles. Almost every game thats available on both platforms beats it out on PC. Plus this only includes Steam sales. Look at what beat PC, Pokemon a Nintendo exclusive and fucken sports games bro.