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We are in transition between console generations. The old one's sales have lapsed off and the new one hasn't fully taken. I believe this qualifies as a confounding variable

PC gaming is a sizable market to be sure, especially since Steam arrived, but as time goes on consoles and PCs becomes more and more apples and oranges. They're similar markets and there's a lot of overlap, but the PC market has more F2P and MMO stuff because that is what PC architecture can do. Consoles favor single player content because that's what a console is designed for. The patterns here are almost entirely caused by these company's IP portfolios and how they fit into or overlap across these categories.