{"id":938618,"date":"2026-05-05T05:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/938618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:14:23","slug":"new-survey-highlights-the-top-reasons-to-play-games-on-a-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/938618\/","title":{"rendered":"New Survey Highlights The ‘Top Reasons To Play Games On A Console’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Talking<\/a><\/p>\n

Something that’s been hitting the headlines a bit over the past couple of days relates to a new survey that’s been conducted by the analysis firm Circana<\/a>, and how it suggests exclusives are the number one reason to own a console.<\/p>\n

This gained traction due to being shared by The Game Business<\/a> \u2014 the outlet pointed out that 41% of US gamers in the survey mentioned playing games on a console because they contain exclusive titles.<\/p>\n

However, Circana’s Senior Director followed up by insisting that “this isn’t the whole story”, pointing out in follow-up posts that the results in the survey are very close \u2014 and that in his opinion, “the real answer is that everything matters”.<\/p>\n

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“To add context here, this is from Circana’s Q1 Future of Video Games consumer survey. But obviously, this isn’t the whole story.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let’s have a look at the survey results, and then we’ll share some of the director’s follow-up posts:<\/p>\n

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N=2.5k active US video game players aged 13+. Weighted based on representive distribution of platform use and investment.<\/p>\n

Feel free to ignore if it bothers you that it does not align with your predetermined desired result.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-05-01T00:16:24.264Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s interesting how there is such a diversity of reasons; nothing comes close to a definite majority and these are the “top 5” of an unstated number of options.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jacob (@ucfjake.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-05-01T03:17:15.264Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Yep. It’s why the whole how much do exclusives matter debate has been going on for years and years and why it’ll keep going.<\/p>\n

The real answer is that everything matters, but that’s not as much fun I guess idk.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-05-01T03:27:15.695Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is probably a silly follow-up <\/p>\n

But are we talking games exclusives to specific platforms or games exclusives to just consoles versus like mobile<\/p>\n

\u2014 April’s Favorite Fool (@breakabone.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-04-30T20:27:33.169Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, that is up to the respondent. We do not define the term in the survey.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-04-30T21:04:54.868Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the takeaway here isn’t that exclusives<\/a> are the be-all and end-all when it comes to buying consoles, but they do factor into many people’s purchasing decisions \u2014 and really, that’s no surprise… it’s always been that way!<\/p>\n

Asha Sharma and her team will undoubtedly be taking that into account when it comes to Project Helix<\/a> and the next generation of Xbox, and we already know they’re officially reevaluating what to do about exclusivity<\/a> in the future.<\/p>\n

What will come of that reevaluation though? We might not find out for months, and maybe not even until 2027…<\/p>\n

What do you make of these survey results? Let us know down in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

\"Fraser<\/p>\n

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Something that’s been hitting the headlines a bit over the past couple of days relates to a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[262220,126,516,53,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-938618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-consoles","9":"tag-features","10":"tag-talking-point","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116520266855038237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}