Steam provides an unusual level of insight into what’s popular on the platform and how games are performing. While user reviews and charts of concurrent player counts can be weaponized to push toxic agendas, they also provide useful data points for tracking broader movements around which games are trending and why. Console storefronts on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, meanwhile, are effectively black boxes. Outside of lists of the top-selling games at any given moment, we don’t know much about who’s actually playing what. That could be changing.
As spotted by PlayStation YouTuber Mystic (via CharlieIntel), Sony has rolled
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