According to GDC 2017’s survey, the PC platform is the most popular one. The survey conducted from the views of over 4,5000 video game developers who have attended GDC over the past 3 years and according to the results, 53% of the survey-takers are currently developing for the PC platform.
This further proves how popular the PC platform actually is, as more and more developers are releasing their games on it.
In addition, GDC 2017’s survey revealed that 61% of the surveyed developers are not currently developing VR titles, but among those who are, 24 percent are currently making games on HTC and Valve’s Vive headset, 23 percent are supporting Oculus Rift, and 13 percent are supporting Sony’s PlayStation VR.
For what it’s worth, GDC 2017 will take place February 27th-March 3rd, alongside the 2017 Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) February 27-28, both at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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seeing the switch that low is sad
No, it’s fantastic. Nintendo is an awful hardware manufacturer, and they’d be much better off going the route of SEGA and being a plain old 3rd party developer.
None of the big 3 make their hardware anymore.
No sh*t, hardware manufacturer is just an expression when talking about consoles.
People can be very Anti-Nintendo all they want one thing i agree with is they need to stop attacking youtubers. However Nintendo is the only console manufacture that doesn’t just try and make a underpowered console that tries to convince its users as being powerful. Like PS and xbox does every freaking generation, for example PS4 Pro what can that do that my PC can’t? Same goes for the Xbox one hell most of the games are even on the PC what the hell is the point in owning one.
Nintendo on the other hand i can only get games from their hardware and they at least try and sell something different. It’s not just about power as a 1080 and 4790K owner some of the best games i played barely use the power of my PC.
Nintendo is insanely anti consumer, they need to be taught a lesson and maybe theyll adapt to this century. The old ways arent accepted anymore and they need to learn this
Not as sad as 3ds
It’s very early
consoles are dying
That’s what i hope every day
And microsoft and sony with their plans to make new consoles each 3
years are only accelrating their deaths. As a result more and more
console gamers are abanoding them on a daily basis and it is only a
matter of time until evry console gamers become a pc gamer! They only
need to buy a strong pc then connect to the tv with a xbox or
playstation controller and they will have the best gaming experience but
on the couch with controller like they are used too. They know that and
that what they are doing more and more of them!!
FOR EVERYONE IT WOULD BE BETTER IF DEVS HAD ONLY 1 PLATFORM TO DEVELOP FOR BUT THAT WONT HAPPEN.
PS4 Pro is not new generation, it’s same damn thing, target specific market within playerbase.
How consoles will die is beyond me. I see PS4 fanboys saying Xbox will die, and the other way around. And PC fanboys saying consoles will die.
Non of which is gonna happen. Sony sold 50 mil PS4’s in 3 years. How are consoles dying? If they were dying they would sell much less. Also game sales don’t lie, for some reason people even some multiplat gamers buy many games more on consoles than on PC.
but from what i read in many big games forums nowdays it seems thhat more and more people are buying high end pc’s and connect them to 4k HDR tvs on their living room and use them as consoles.
Also gaming pc’s sales are rising each year. Most recent example is the very high sales of GTX 1080TI and Ryzen.
Those are fanboys caves who want to believe that, but that’s not true.
You’ll see PS4 was at 50 mil at the end of last year. Will be another 10 mil sold this year.
Hardware sales just mean many people are ready to repeatly support corporations to get better performance or as many do to show off.
?am also ugprading now. I bought new ram 3 days ago(16 GB DDR4 3200 MHZ CL15 GS KILL JAW RIPPER) and tomorow i will buy new cpu and motherboard! Iwill buy Asus PRO X370 and Ryzen 1700! After 5 years and 9 months on Core i5 2500k and 12 GB DDR3 1600 MHZ it is time to ugprade. But i will keep my 1440p monitor DELLLP2416D(24” 1440P 60 HZ IPS) since i bought ito only 8 months ago. And i am slso keeping my GTX 970 G1 GAMIGN for long long time because while i have it since November 2014 it still runs all games on max settings 1440p with more than 30 fps so it is not worth it to buy a 1080ti just for 60+ fps 1440p max settings when my 970 already runs evrything maxed even if it is at 40 fps instead of 60 for most games. As you see unlike the fanboys you are talking about , iam upgrading my pc only when it realy needed and is starts showing it ages and not each year like all those people do and increase pc saless just to have the best pc of the year! I dont think they do to show off. But belieme that when i bought this 1440p monitor on June 2016( i had 21,5” 1080p LG22MP55 until then) was not only because i had seen this 1440p monitor in action on a pc shop how much better it looked compared to what i had till then, but also because a friend of mine who was a console gamer at that time, decided to finaly buy his first gaming pc and become a pc gamer. When he announced me the pc specs that he wants to buy and finaly bought on September 2016(Core i5 6600k 16 GB DDR4 2800 MHZ GTX 1070 MSI ARMOR DELLP2416D) i became so jealous ofhim and i couldnt accept him a consoel gamer for decades to have a better pc than me a pc user and gamer since 1996 when i was a 9 yeard old kid! What i did then? Went to a shop and bought a DELLP2416D and then sold LG22MP55 way before he bought his pc in september of 2016! So i could say him for 4 months”look now i have as good monitor as you will buy”!!!
Have you ever heard for text formating? I wouldn’t read that comment if you give me 20 €.
It’s certainly challenging times for the console industry. Microsoft have stumbled from one disaster to the next these past 3 years with Xbone while Nintendo failed with Wii U and Switch looks dead on arrival at its mooted launch price of $299/£280. Sadly only one company, Sony, is the console industry of today.
And microsoft and sony with their plans to make new consoles each 3
years are only accelrating their deaths. As a result more and more
console gamers are abanoding them on a daily basis and it is only a
matter of time until evry console gamers become a pc gamer! They only
need to buy a strong pc then connect to the tv with a xbox or
playstation controller and they will have the best gaming experience but
on the couch with controller like they are used too. They know that and
that what they are doing more and more of them!!!
Some mischievous souls might make the point that consoles as we once knew them are already dead. Both Sony and Microsoft offer X86-based consolised weak sauce gaming PCs (using a mobile oriented CPU no less) while Nintendo’s new console is, according to Digital Foundry, based on Tegra X1, i.e. is mobile oriented.
That’s bs, and a dream that is not real. Sony sold 50 mil consoles, nothing will change, consoles aren’t going away.
And microsoft and sony with their plans to make new consoles each 3 years are only accelrating their deaths. As a result more and more console gamers are abanoding them on a daily basis and it is only a matter of time until evry console gamers become a pc gamer! They only need to buy a strong pc then connect to the tv with a xbox or playstation controller and they will have the best gaming experience but on the couch with controller like they are used too. They know that and that what they are doing more and more of them!
AAA publishers disagree
Indeed
They are indie developers. Ofc they will choose pc cause it’s cheaper
If consoles were dying PS4 wouldn’t sell 50 mil but it did.
Let’s face it consoles won’t go away and there’s not a damn thing we can do about that.
Good. More pc devs —> Me happier.
How many of those 53% are bad ports? :o)
I’d say from the most known pubs that do bad things =P.
Dude, there were 2-to-3 crap PC ports last year. A minuscule number. Get over it.
Dude, all my comments are silly and it don’t matter. They come in great numbers and usually a emoticon to make it simple for a child to know. Get over it.
We are here for the longest time. It is about time he knows your MO 😀
Yeah, man, can’t wait for my plans for world domination get in motion so everybody can understand me.
I meant plans for friendship and peace, friendship and peace.
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In 2016 we got Dishonored 2 and Quantum Break. Evrything else is perfect. I hope the year starts well since next week is resident evil 7 which is the first big release on pc this year
Yet I have heard that “PC gaming is irrelevant” so many times.
It is to people who’ve only ever played consoles so it’s all they know.
Fear not, I would play that.
The jiggle physics would be embarrassing to the extent that the female characters would be little more than walking circuses.
Moist!
Erm… sold! I mean sold!
The Moistening™ is my proposed title for it.
“The survey conducted from the views of over 4,5000 video game developers who have attended GDC over the past 3 years”
Why not publish results from a current 2017-only survey?
And yet we still get sone broken and unoptimized release
That’s because biggest money milkers are f2ps for PC, AAA games tend to sell worse even if they are released in decent state.
53% of game devs may be developing for PC…. but WHAT are they developing. Jesus f’ing christ, somebody kill greenlight already
High five !!!!!
I hope smartphones and consoles die
Dream on
Will be much higher if some of those answers were not trolls.
13% not involved ind evelopment, x360 3% ps3 2%, psvita 2% psp 0% lol does anyone even make psp games? wii 0.4% i could go own but you get the point.
bonetown?
Linux = 2GEEKY
They kinda need to separate it (to be fair; they should have separated Mac as well), in order to get better numbers.
If they placed Linux in the same category, people might think that there’s a ton of games for Linux – which is not the case. It’s getting more focus, but it’s not insanely big on game titles just yet.
While I am pro PC, this is not really a fair comparison; What % of that 4,5000 are employed by the few big name-brand publishers? You know they are still banking on consoles, it’s a walled ecosystem that only houses pay windows – what’s not to like for a publisher? Indies will develop on PC because there is no licensing fee to do so. They would much rather develop for consoles because there is more money per sale there, but can’t afford to do it – until the PC version takes off of course…
why is Linux on a different entry? When did PC equal to windows?
Since ever. COming to PC means coming to Windows.
while we patting ourselves at the back cheering PCMR.. little do we know that PC gaming will start becoming more irrelevant as consoles such as PS4 gaining so much strength (already 50.4M consoles sold) and with so many line ups for AAA exclusives that PC gamers will never have. not to mention ANY games from PC will be coming to consoles. i’ve seen none PC games will have every any exlusives at all except RTS and those F2P MOBA. gg PC gamers. keep cheering.
That will change