The latest reports from the game industry show that only about 18% of developers are working on the next generation of games. The survey was done among nearly 4,000 developers with the goal to find out what developers around the world are intending to do in the following years. Turns out that some 16% of developers are working on titles for both current generation and unannounced platforms, while only 2% work only for unannounced platforms.

Of course, this means that the majority of developers are working on the current generation of platforms, with 46% of respondents saying they are making games exclusively for already existing platforms, and the rest of them saying they’re not sure. Considering there are still none of the next-gen consoles officially unveiled, there’s no wonder that most of the developers are focusing on the current-gen.

Speaking of the current game platforms, 56% of the developers said their latest games were made for PC, 33% mentioned mobile has their latest platform, 24% released on PlayStation 4, 20% release on Xbox One, and 9% released on Nintendo Switch.

However, when did developers were asked which platform they expect their next game will be made for, the results were a little bit different. All the numbers shifted up on all of the platforms listed above, with Nintendo Switch standing out with 22% of expected games planned for that platform.

Additionally, 45% of developers said that Nintendo Switch is a platform they are interested in. The most of the developers who released the games for multiple platforms including Switch said that those games mostly sold same or better on Nintendo Switch than other platforms. This is not so big of a surprise considering the rapid growth of Nintendo Switch’s install base since its release in 2017. Remind you, Switch was the best-selling console in 2018, mostly thanks to the exclusive first party games selling exceptionally well.

A few of the interviewed developers explicitly said they are developing games for the next giant platforms, like Bethesda, which announced their upcoming game Starfield would be coming to the next generation platforms, although they planned the release for the current-gen consoles too.

After that, Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls 6 and said it would be released after Starfield, which suggests it will be a next-gen game too.

Speaking of next generations of consoles, Microsoft announced that successor of Xbox One is under development, and the later report indicated it could be a family of devices, under the codenames Anaconda and Lockhart. Last October, Sony also confirmed that they work on a new console too.

Despite the PC being the dominant platform for the gaming studios, console wars are still raging on, giving players a lot of reasons to be happy with new games and new devices to play them on.