Game Dev Tycoon – Popular Platforms for Different Target Audiences

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I recently got this sales report:

^{"Sales Report – It seems that the initial sales for SportsActionGameling have fallen way below expected numbers. The game received good reviews but it seems that the chosen platform isn't very popular with the target audience."}
As subtly hinted by my game's name, I developed an Action Sports game for the Gameling platform. I believe I targeted the 'Everyone' audience. Turns out this wasn't very popular with 'Everyone'. Hence, my question:

Which platforms are popular with which target audiences?

Best Answer

You will occasionally get messages about matches or mismatches of target audience and platform you have chosen. Your choice of audience has a minor effect on the review score, it primarily affects the number of sales your game will generate. The higher the sales modifier of the selected platform is, the more sales you will get with that target audience

Here is a chart of well-fitting and non-fitting platforms for each game audience (notice that Gameling is a non-fitting platform for the 'Everyone' audience):

(The numbers after the platform name represent sales modifiers, well-fitting platforms have sales modifiers greater than or equal 100% and non-fitting platforms have modifiers less than 100%)

list of well-fitting and non-fitting platforms for each game audience
^{Source: Game Dev Tycoon wiki, "Game Development" article}

Related Solutions

How to target specific audiences

Once you have researched Target Audience, an option for rating will be added to the initial game development options. This is the audience you will be developing for. The combination of target audience, topic, genre, and platform will affect game sales and the game will let you know if your choices do not match.

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Which genre fits or works well with which platform

KEY: ++ = best, + = good, otherwise, avoid these combinations

               Action   Adventure   RPG   Simulation   Strategy   Casual
PC               +           +       +        +            +         +
Govodore 64      +           +       +        +            +         +
TES              +
Master V         +
Gameling         +                  ++                               +
Vena Gear        +                  ++
Vena Oasis       +                  ++
Super TES        +
Playsystem       +                  ++
TES 64           +                  
DreamVast        +          ++
Playsystem 2     +                  ++                               +
mBox             ++          +
Game Sphere      +
GS                                   +        ++           ++        ++
PPS              +                  ++
mBox 360         +                   +                               ++
Nuu                                           +                      +
Playsystem 3     +                   +
grPhone                              +        ++           ++        ++
grPad                                +        ++           ++        ++
mPad                                          ++           +         ++
Wuu                                           ++                     +
mBox Next        ++                  +                               ++
Playsystem 4     +                   +
Custom Console   ++                  +                               ++

This table is generated from raw data collected from the game.

In addition to the above table, certain combinations of game work better when targeted at specific audiences, for example Post Apocalyptic/Action and Post Apocalyptic/RPG games are best suited when targeted towards more mature audiences.