Last night’s massive advert Game Pass, X019, had plenty of new reveals for which games will soon be made available in the months to come. Those announcements had a distinctive single-player taste, favouring genres and sequels that ranged from classic remasters to more contemporary slices of RPG nostalgia. Something which Xboss Phil Spencer reckons, is helping publishers to realise that they don’t need to chase the live service dragon.

The analysts over at the EEDAR decided to see just which game genres performed the best across various gaming systems, which saw the NPD group send out a survey to various players. The results? Well yeah, first-person shooters are still the most popular games around, and water is still wet.

The PlayStation 3 publishing breakup is a nice example of what a competitive business environment should look like

Want some numbers about gaming? Ok then, let's look at the percentages of people who play sports games and other genres then.