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GDC poll: Only 13% of European developers working on PlayStation 4 games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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European developers are busy making games for the PC and mobile devices, shifting away from consoles — even more broadly than their North American counterparts.

That is the conclusion from a survey of 300 developers in advance of the upcoming GDC Europe conference on Aug. 19–21 in Cologne, Germany. The fifth annual event will provide a pan-European perspective on game development and business trends, and show organizer UBM Tech has conducted a study to capture the unique thinking of European studios.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.