A recent survey from market research firm Circana shows that, as before, the number one reason people use consoles is to play exclusive games not available on other platforms. But the data shows that other factors are nearly as important and, interestingly, exclusive games are becoming less of a reason to buy a PS5 or boot up a Switch 2. In a new installment of The Game Business , published on April 30, reporter Christopher Dring connected dots between new data and previous reporting to make the case that the reason PlayStation and Xbox are seemingly returning to exclusive games, after a period of porting stuff to PC and rival platforms, is because that’s still the main driver for people buying and playing consoles. According to a new Q1 2026 survey from Circana, when asked: “Why do you play games on a console?” 41 percent of surveyed gamers responded: “There are games I want to play that are exclusive to a console.” This is down eight percent from this time last year.…