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This is fairly outdated, it was certainly true in 2013 but these days xbox is pretty much dead, playstation is stable but flat for a long time, PC has overtaken both, and mobile has shot to the moon.

The Steam Machine is a very niche product, but PC gaming is the main gaming platform outside of phone games.

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> This has spooked Sony into pulling its new titles from Steam - they don't want people buying an Xbox to play Spider-Man games

That's not what happened, Sony's decision is more about the poor saels of its single player titles on Steam, they are now focusing their PC releases for online multiplayer games instead

Microsoft sells less consoles each month than the previous gen Nintendo Switch sells today

A lot of publishers are skipping Xbox, citing not enough players/sales

They have nothing to worry about Xbox

https://i.imgur.com/TrI3q6e.png

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SteamDB estimates SM sold 4MM copies on Steam, SM 1.5 sold 2MM, and SM2 sold 1.25MM.

1.5 years ago, the developer announced that SM2 had sold 10MM copies on PS5 and the franchise had sold 50MM copies overall:

https://x.com/insomniacgames/status/1757662718604013868

https://steamdb.info/app/1817070/charts/

https://steamdb.info/app/1817190/charts/

https://steamdb.info/app/2651280/charts/

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Which makes sense. Exclusives is basically the best reason for buying a PlayStation, so if they stick them all on PC, that’s not gonna help them much.

As you’ve said, Microsoft is basically toast. They’ve been sinking for multiple generations.

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