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Andy Chalk

'PC development has skyrocketed,' GDC survey finds: 80% of developers are now making games for PC, more than double the number working on PS5 or Xbox games

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It's kind of funny to look back on all the times PC gaming has been declared dead, a claim that—to borrow a phrase—was an exaggeration. Lest there be any doubt, GDC's 2025 State of the Game Industry report says development on the platform has "skyrocketed," with 80% of the more than 3,000 developers who responded to the survey saying they're currently making games for PC.

That's a big jump from the 2024 report, when 66% of respondents said they were developing for PC, which was sufficient for GDC to call it "the dominant platform." It's also more than double the percentage of developers working on the second-most popular platform, the PlayStation 5, which claimed 38% of respondents, and the Xbox Series X/S, which came in a close third at 34%

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