PC Gamer: Only 15% of Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024

asdasdasdbb said:
Top 10 on US PSN right now:

Fortnite
Call of Duty
NBA 2K25
College Football 25
Madden
FC
Marvel Rivals
Helldivers 2 (and it's usually hasn't been there in some time)
GTA V
Roblox

The sports games are all last year I think.
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They're all this year. College Football 25 is terrific too.
 
Another factor is that Steam has over 200,000 titles as of today, dating back decades, which dwarfs the 18,000 or so released in 2024 (as per SteamDB).
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Compare this with your typical console roster of games.

Besides, us PC gamers were always better at filtering the slop spewn out by the AAA devs. No settling for mediocrity just because of supporting the "latest thing in the industry".
 
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Let's first consider a ton of games are released in the 4th quarter. A ton of kids get their games at xmas just before the turn of the year.

A lot of people just got a console this year. GAmes like MK8 Deluxe Switch didn't sell all 65mn copies to a ~150mn strong install base in 2017. ...

That's before you get to STeam and GaaS.

In other words a lot of this has probably been the case for eons.
 
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Steam has infinite backward compatibility, so as the library of games continue to build, the % of games that are current year will continue to decline.
 
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I guess people who are saying this year sucks must only be in to western games, in that sense I don't blame them.

For me this year was damn good, I played tones of new games this year.
 
Do games that launch out of EA count as 2024? My most played Steam game of 2024 is Satisfactory. 1.0 was just a few months back, but the game has been in EA for a long time.
 
We have nothing to compare this to other than previous years so it's hard to say if this is a good amount or not.
 
So basically what this says is delayed ports are a more than justified strategy as long as you succeed on consoles first and generate hype.
 
Astray said:
So basically what this says is delayed ports are a more than justified strategy as long as you succeed on consoles first and generate hype.
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How does it say that? What is the percentage of time spent playing new games on consoles?
 
This just illustrates the strength of the platform where you have a huge number of older games available to play, often with mods that update games enough that companies would normally charge $$$ for that.
 
Yeah 2024 was the year of the backlog. In addition to what everyone else said, there has been zero tech breakthroughs. Games look exactly the same now as they did 5 years ago.
 
Yeah sorry about that…

2024 playtime:
#1 Elden Ring
#2 Starfield

But both had new expansions this year.
 
As it should be. Only suckers waste their money playing nothing but new games.

PC is also the only platform with cheap bundle deals and loads of free to keep games pouring in every week. There's no need to buy the latest games.
 
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I wonder how this would look on PS
SweetTooth said:
Reasons are (backed by studies)

Their Rigs can't handle it.
They are broke as f***

🤣🤣🤣
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Go look at the top 10 games on PS. It's all the same old shit.

Again I would like to express my condolences that Sony didn't close the deal with Kadokawa, since most of your posts on this website were you taking victory laps and gloating like a horse's ass before anything even happened. 😂🫵
 
I've been saying this for a while now but it's true. Chasing this PC audience is so dumb. They are a completely different beast.

This also explains why the PC cut of recent releases is typically in the 10-15% range.
 
BennyBlanco said:
I wonder how this would look on PS

Go look at the top 10 games on PS. It's all the same old shit.

Again I would like to express my condolences that Sony didn't close the deal with Kadokawa, since most of your posts on this website were you taking victory laps and gloating like a horse's ass before anything even happened. 😂🫵
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Well Thanks, We Sonybros can't keep winning everything 😅
 
PC games have always tended to be the type of game you play long-time. See Counterstrike, AoE2, Dwarf Fortress, ... My fav racing sim released in 2002 and I still play it the most, although I've tried them all. Console games are often more movie-like with a story, play it, done, next, which also is ignored when comparing the cost of PC vs console gaming.

New PC? Jack up the settings of your fav games to max, increase resolution, add mods to increase view distance, etc... No shit games are getting played longer than having to wait for remasters or relying on new games to take advantage of your new console.
 
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2025 I will finally start on the Avatar Pandora game. Bought it recently on sale but have only booted it up to see how well it will run on my RTX 4070.
 
SlimySnake said:
I've been saying this for a while now but it's true. Chasing this PC audience is so dumb. They are a completely different beast.

This also explains why the PC cut of recent releases is typically in the 10-15% range.
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Silent Hill 2 was noticeably low and it was still 22%. No idea where you got 10-15% from. Probably the same place you got 60fps GOW on PS4 Pro from.
 
Im 1 of them. The only games from this yr I have played on PC are FC24 and Indy. Most new games now days are just fucking shit, bug ridden unoptimized junk, lack of new ideas, creativity and full of woke nonsense made by a load of pussies who spend alot of time crying about having to actualy get off there lazy arse and go to a work place rather than wing it working from home or why there isnt tampons in the mens toilet.

There is the odd good game, but even then its worth waiting 6months to a yr for a few patches.
 
SlimySnake said:
I've been saying this for a while now but it's true. Chasing this PC audience is so dumb. They are a completely different beast.

This also explains why the PC cut of recent releases is typically in the 10-15% range.
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You have the console percentages? Please share.
 
poppabk said:
You have the console percentages? Please share.
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Only numbers I can find are Europe specific, where Steam data seems to show is a less demand for PC gaming as opposed to America. Even then, I don't see anything lower than Silent Hill at 22%. Not 10-15%.
 
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poppabk said:
How does it say that? What is the percentage of time spent playing new games on consoles?
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We don't know but it's almost certainly going to be better than this. I know almost for a fact that Xbox will definitely be better because Gamepass (remember this is a playtime stat, not a purchase stat).

This statistic tracks because I rarely buy a title day 1 on Steam unless I specifically want to support it. I'm far likelier to buy newer titles on PS or Switch tho.

Keep in mind that if you don't succeed on consoles, then you are completely fucked on PC, especially if your game is singleplayer.
 
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PC Gamers have access to a wealth of fantastic games. Why limit themselves to only games released this year? Even though I've countless hours on 2024 games, I've spent way more on older ones (especially Slay The Spire).
 
marjo said:
PC Gamers have access to a wealth of fantastic games. Why limit themselves to only games released this year? Even though I've countless hours on 2024 games, I've spent way more on older ones (especially Slay The Spire).
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Been playing tons of DOOM/Quake, as well as its expansions and conversions. Doesn't even appear in my steam year review
 
Well, it has been like this on PC "forever", and ironically also one of the many reasons I'm a PC gamer and not a console gamer. PC doesn't have clear generations like consoles, and thus on Steam alone there are more than 50,000 games available at the fingertips for dirt cheap. PC has always been infamous for not being as frontloaded as consoles, and for having a lot of popular PC centric "evergreen" service games. This isn't exactly news.
 
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nemiroff said:
Well, it has been like this on PC "forever", and ironically also one of the many reasons I'm a PC gamer and not a console gamer. PC doesn't have clear generations like consoles, and thus on Steam alone there are more than 50,000 games available at the fingertips for dirt cheap. PC has always been infamous for not being as frontloaded as consoles, and for having a lot of popular PC centric "evergreen" service games. This isn't exactly news.
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This is talking specifically about Steam, not PC using Epic, GOG, Direct2Drive, etc. PC was my primary system. I'm not sure why you haven't done this, but every PC gamer I knew growing up bought games day one even while we played older games.

And this isn't exclusive to PC either.

On the PS5, I can go back and play terrific games from the 70s and onward. On the Switch, it's the same thing. Etc, so having BC isn't exclusive to PC. I have 100s of physical games on PC I still play sometimes, but I still play new games on PC too.

PC does have generations. It's even in the wording of new CPUs and GPUs. When giant leaps happen on hardware, that's a new generation. You can still use you old hardware to play most games (same with consoles), but there is a leap forward.
 
DryvBy said:
This is talking specifically about Steam, not PC using Epic, GOG, Direct2Drive, etc. PC was my primary system. I'm not sure why you haven't done this, but every PC gamer I knew growing up bought games day one even while we played older games.

And this isn't exclusive to PC either.

On the PS5, I can go back and play terrific games from the 70s and onward. On the Switch, it's the same thing. Etc, so having BC isn't exclusive to PC. I have 100s of physical games on PC I still play sometimes, but I still play new games on PC too.

PC does have generations. It's even in the wording of new CPUs and GPUs. When giant leaps happen on hardware, that's a new generation. You can still use you old hardware to play most games (same with consoles), but there is a leap forward.
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Parks And Rec Spinning GIF
 
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DAHGAMING said:
Im 1 of them. The only games from this yr I have played on PC are FC24 and Indy. Most new games now days are just fucking shit, bug ridden unoptimized junk, lack of new ideas, creativity and full of woke nonsense made by a load of pussies who spend alot of time crying about having to actualy get off there lazy arse and go to a work place rather than wing it working from home or why there isnt tampons in the mens toilet.

There is the odd good game, but even then its worth waiting 6months to a yr for a few patches.
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I gamed on PC almost exclusively this year and couldn't disagree more. There is plenty of stuff to buy that's not woke or bug ridden.

Even the so-called bad games like Star Wars outlaws had amazing graphics and tech I couldnt wait to check out.

This year alone, I played:

  1. Dragons Dogma 2
  2. Indy
  3. Black Myth Wukong
  4. Silent Hill 2
  5. Space Marine 2
  6. Dragon Age Veilguard
  7. Nobody Wants to Die
  8. Star Wars Outlaws
  9. No Rest For the Wicked
  10. Suicide Squad
  11. Brothers Remake
  12. Stalker
  13. Hellblade 2


Of these games, only Dragon Age was woke. Only Suicide Squad was truly bad. And only stalker was truly buggy.

The rest were non-woke, mostly good to great games that released in a decent state on PC.

I honestly dont know how real gamers can dismiss so many games, let alone PC gamers who want to play the latest and greatest on their new shiny graphics cards. As a console gamer, I bought everything on consoles on day one because i truly enjoy video games more than movies, sports, tv shows, and music. I dont waste money on concerts. I dont buy onlyfans subs. i have my one MLB sub but thats about it. Games are my passion and its insane to me that people would dismiss 85% of the games for these arbitrary reasons.
 
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DryvBy said:
I played the TimeSplitters trilogy on PS5 this year. And Tomb Raider 1 lol
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That's not the norm, though. Most pre-PS4 games aren't available on either PS4 or PS5, and the few that are make you pay for the privilege of playing them again on new hardware, which was kind of my point.

Zacfoldor said:
Basically you are saying consoles have a working business model and PC doesn't.

There was a chart recently, from Forbes, shows PC gaming going down and console going up.

I think that chart needs to be posted more around here. Let me see if I can dig it up.
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The reason PC gaming doesn't have a "working business model" is that PC gaming doesn't have a business model at all. There's no single company or even group of companies in charge of either the hardware or the software side of it, so nobody could even come up with one even if they wanted to. Personally, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Valve are probably the closest thing PC gaming has to a console-style platform owner, and they're doing better than ever.
 
It take about 2 years of patching for new AAA games to become stable enough on PC, especially multiplatform games.
Patched and way cheaper, why even buy newer games ?
 
I think I only played one 2024 release this year and that was Selaco. Great, great game. Loved every second of it. Outside of that there wasn't too much to entice me.
 
Astray said:
We don't know but it's almost certainly going to be better than this. I know almost for a fact that Xbox will definitely be better because Gamepass (remember this is a playtime stat, not a purchase stat).
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Tldr- we don't know
 
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