[paulmd]

> You're looking at number people logged into an online service and thinking it represents anything about gamers that by definition aren't online. A typical sampling bias.

steam, ubisoft connect, origin, blizzard launcher, and rockstar are all online today, even for single-player games. I'm not sure where a significant number of non-platform-delivered games would even exist in 2022, I haven't bought a single game that didn't use steam or another platform from a vendor in ages.

The exception being GOG I guess, and to be fair there's a decent number of new-ish titles on that (horizon zero dawn) and I always make an effort to buy titles there when possible, but even still GOG's marketshare is minuscule in comparison to steam.

so no, actually, I disagree that there's some large repository of single-player games that are not showing up on steam or another equivalent.

(do PSN/XBL keep public player count stats?)