2024 was a stable and 2025 had a fair share of success, but there been studio closures and lay-offs that will be reflected in next year’s report.

The full 2024 report:
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The most popular games created by Swedish companies based on Steam sales.

These are the biggest Swedish games companies in turnover and number of employees.

Walter Day is the famous Twin Galaxies referee as seen in King of Kong. Met him at E3 2009.

…in theory that 16% could be players that had Switch 1 but for some reason didn’t transfer their old account and started a new. Likely minimal given the simplicity and encouragement to transfer when starting a Switch 2 console.

Probably a lot of cross-ownership of both old Switch 1 and new Switch 2 owners that also have PC or another console, and play on mobile. Been a couple of studies, for example Newzoo covering this. Nintendo can track based on Nintendo accounts. Which means…

Nintendo also data for Switch 1 players transitioning to Switch 2.

I loved it, ahead of its time.

Yes!!

Wrote about Sweden’s first commercial studio that developed games on Videopac in the early 80’s. A lot of Philips connections. Story today is mostly the US Odyssey 2 perspective but Videpac was big elsewhere. Maybe something for a Dutch person closer to Philips, but otherwise I can contribute.