In 2024, Steam released 147 hit games based on new IPs—8 times more than on PlayStation and 18 times more than on Xbox
Analyst Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo calculated how many games released in 2024 managed to sell over 100,000 copies across various platforms by March 2025. He also determined how many of these games were new IPs.
Steam
- As Carless notes, just over 19,000 new games appeared on the Valve platform last year.
- 223 new titles sold more than 100,000 copies on Steam — which is 1.23% of all 2024 releases.
- 147 of these 223 successful new releases were games based on fresh IPs. Their share among all 2024 releases on the platform was 0.77%.
Data on new 2024 releases on Steam
PlayStation
- Far fewer new games were released on Sony's console in 2024 compared to Steam — 1,292 in total.
- Of these, 63 managed to achieve sales exceeding 100,000 copies (5%). When assessing sales, Carless did not count copies picked up for free by PlayStation Plus subscribers.
- The analyst counted 18 successful games based on new IPs (1.39%).
Data on new 2024 releases on PlayStation
Xbox
- 1,115 new games were released on Xbox in 2024.
- 29 of them sold more than 100,000 copies (2.6%). This excludes copies distributed via the Game Pass subscription.
- Only eight games with such sales were created based on new IPs (0.72%).
Data on new 2024 releases on Xbox
Nintendo Switch (data only from eShop)
- In the eShop last year, a total of 2,898 new games appeared.
- 36 of them reached the milestone of 100,000 copies sold (1.24%).
- There were 15 successful games based on new IPs (0.52%).
Data on new 2024 releases on Nintendo Switch
According to the data collected by Carless, Steam emerged as the leader last year in terms of both the number of successful new releases and games with fresh IPs. This isn’t surprising considering the volume of projects debuting on the platform. However, in percentage terms, another picture emerges — from this perspective, PlayStation shows the best results.