According to a GDC 2020 survey, developers are more interested in bringing their games to Xbox Series X could have wider implications when the next console war kicks off this holiday season.
Looking at things from this end of the current generation, the Sony, meanwhile, was touting having crossed a milestone of 100 million PS4s sold earlier the same year. Although it's been an uphill battle for Microsoft ever since throwing in its hat as a gaming market latecomer in 2001, ending the generation with the Xbox One sitting at less than half of the lifetime sales of the Xbox 360 is an especially unfavorable position to start the decade, and being developers' third priority likely won't help things.
In the GDC's annual Nintendo Switch, which 37 percent of developers identified as a platform that most interests them.
It should be noted that the results of these self-reporting surveys put out prior to every year's GDC aren't oracular, being innately subject to the biases and sometimes misplaced hopes of the responding developers. Another backwards compatibility hold merit, then the PS5's hardware could prove to have some yet-unseen development oddities programmers might not enjoy untangling.
The next console generation is still months away, and things could go any number of ways come this holiday season. While PCs are constantly being upgraded and replaced, neither the Xbox One X nor the PS5 have solid launch dates as of yet, and it remains to be seen if developers' higher opinion of the latter will factor into the tough decisions players will face when it's finally time to upgrade.
Source: GDC
