A recent survey by Informa and Omdia shows a notable increase in PC game development. This kind of increase will inadvertently help the Steam Deck. Inform and Omdia surveyed over 3,000 industry professionals before the Game Developers Conference and found that 80% of developers are currently working on PC games.

Despite industry woes, XR development has largely stayed consistent, according to the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) State of the Game Industry Survey, noting that 35% of developers who responded are building for XR.

It's a difficult time to be a developer these days, according to GDC's 2025 State of the Game Industry report.

One in 10 game developers lost their job in 2024. That’s according to the results of the annual Game Developers Conference state of the video game survey. The survey sampled over 3,000 developers and covered a number of topics including industry layoffs and what kind of games developers are working on.