Otter said:
Looking data 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 |
Solid points. Though I have no wonder how many of the remaining PS4 players will upgrade to PS5 at all. GTA6 should be fun to follow.