Why do game developers prefer Windows?

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Found this from 6 years back.

https://gist.github.com/kirkegaard/1055336

I suspect that there are more games for iOS and Android than Windows at this point, so I assume the OP is referring just to desktop games. Is there a reference that shows total game sales by platform? I wasn't able to find one in a casual search.

"major" games might be more accurate. Half the time I am looking at games on app stores it's about 20% novel and interesting games and 80% candy crush / war of the world's etc... clones.

And if you are going to count all those little clones, then you would also need to count the countless chess games, poker games, solitaire varients and everything else that is available for windows.

20% novel? Don't you mean 5% novel and interesting, 95% derivative/outright clones? And I'm possibly being generous with that percentage.

There are hundreds of games that come out every day, and Apple only highlights a small number of them. If it seems like 20%, that's probably because Apple chose not to feature them.

It should have been put in the title that this question is from 2011, mobile gaming was on the rise then but not nearly as much as now.

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