Looking at data for broader trends, I think primarily Playstation and then steam...
"As of February 2025, 40% to 42% of PS5 owners were new users."
I do think people underestimate the number who jumped to playstation.
Playstation saw a growth of 35million during the PS4 era and that ended prematurely by Sony killing it's production asap. Meanwhile this gen is far from over but we know a huge amount of PS users simply haven't upgraded from PS4... I think an actual decent portion of PS5 users are from Xbox One and migration from PS4 is lower than the pure numbers imply.
Although steam is growing I think that is mostly younger players and emerging markets like Asia Primary console gamers will mostly migrate to another console for the user experience imo
Last edited by Otter - on 19 October 2025
