GDC State of the Industry Survey

[Person]

I posted about it other threads, and I thought it would be cool to do a (non-exhaustive) look at the survey question "which platform(s) are you developing your current project for?" in GDC surveys through the years. Graph of a few selected platforms. Mobile question was changed between 2020 and 2021 to split into iOS and Android choices. Survey sample is 4,000+ developers.

Year	PC	Mobile	Android	iOS	VR	Xbox 360	PS3	Xbox One / X	PS4 / Pro	Switch	Xbox Series S|X	PS5	Switch successor
2016	52	44			16	5	4	23	27
2017	53	38			24	3	2	22	27	3
2018	60	36			19	3	2	26	30	12
2019	66	38			17			28	31	18
2020	56	39			14			23	25	17	9	11
2021	58		31	32	10			21	22	17	24	27
2022	63		30	30	10			22	21	20	29	31
2023	65		27	26	12			19	18	18	30	33
2024	66		24	23	10			18	16	18	34	35	8

• Steady PC growth
• VR declined, then stabilized
• Mobile interest decreasing
• Switch largely unchanged between 2019 and present
• Extreme persistence of eight generation consoles
• Total support of ninth generation consoles reaching heights above eight generation.

I look forward to either finding other interesting questions that were asked persistently, or updating this in a year.

 

[Terrell]

May want to, just for the sake of posterity, do the same chart for the question on developer intent.