Simon Carless (GameDiscoverCo): Study of the share of top games on PC and consoles
How heavy-hit market do we have right now?
Data from August 11, 2023.
Steam
48.4% of the daily CCU (Concurrent Current Users) is attributed to the top 10 games on Steam.
The top 10 at the time of writing looks like this: CS: GO, DOTA 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Apex Legends, Grand Theft Auto V, Rust, Team Fortress 2, Naraka: Bladepoint, and War Thunder. 70% are free-to-play games.
The top 50 games account for 70% of the total CCU. And the top 1000 games cover 94.7% of the platform's total CCU.
There is no open information about CCU on consoles, so Simon used his own estimation based on DAU (Daily Active Users).
Xbox
The situation on Xbox is similar. The top 10 projects account for 46.1% of the DAU; for the top 50, it's 70.5%.
The top 10 games on Xbox by DAU are Minecraft (including the PC version's DAU), Fortnite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (including Warzone), FIFA 23, Roblox, GTA V, Rocket League, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Forza Horizon 5, and Apex Legends.
PlayStation
On PlayStation, the "heavyweights" have a slight advantage, with the top 10 games accounting for 52.5% of the DAU. For the top 50, it's 76.1%.
The top 10 on the platform includes Fortnite, FIFA 23, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (including Warzone), Grand Theft Auto V, Rocket League, NBA 2K23, Minecraft, Apex Legends, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, and Overwatch 2.
The DAU of leaders on PlayStation is higher. For example, the Fortnite audience is more than 3 times larger, and FIFA 23 is 4.4 times larger.
Overall, the competition for players on PlayStation is slightly tougher than on Xbox, despite having a larger audience.