The Full Gaming Revenue Picture: PC and Console Add-on Spend

Video Game Insights by Sensor Tower (VGI) is proud to announce that we have released add-on spend metrics for consoles (PlayStation & Xbox). Alongside VGI’s existing capability to provide PC add-on spend metrics, the introduction of console add-on spend metrics now completes the full, cross-platform revenue picture. For the first time, users will be able to break out console add-on spend in a variety of different tools within VGI.

Why does this matter?

If you’re trying to fully understand how a game actually earns money, you’ve had to piece the picture together yourself – and usually from just one side of it. Especially for major cross-platform titles, PC add-on spend alone doesn’t paint the full picture. 

Whether it's game design, publishing, or investing – the question of a game's ability to monetize has moved to the forefront, often steering these strategic decisions. As more titles live on both PC and console, and lean harder into add-on monetization alongside premium revenue, the console blindspot has only widened. Development, due diligence, and pricing decisions get made on an incomplete picture – and the titles most exposed are exactly the ones where add-on spend is doing the most work. 

This is where VGI closes the gap – for the first time, in one place. With console add-on spend now available alongside our existing PC coverage, you get premium revenue and add-on spend for the same title, across both platforms. The full picture, together. 

What’s new?

• Game Overview: View PlayStation or Xbox (or both!) add-on spend metrics in combination with premium revenue metrics for a full revenue picture.

• Historical Data: Track how cross-platform and console-only games evolve their monetization strategy from premium revenue streams to add-on revenue streams and vice versa – with data going back to October 15th, 2025.

  

Use PC and Console add-on spend to…

• Benchmark platform performance: Compare monetization strategies across platforms to see whether a game's console and PC economies are built the same way or designed differently for each audience.

• Analyze revenue mixes: Track how a title's revenue mix shifts over time, from premium sales toward add-on spend, or the reverse, to spot monetization pivots as they happen.

• Deepen your analysis: Strengthen due diligence with accurate, platform-specific revenue reads – no more guessing at a cross-platform title's real earning power.

• Optimize pricing: Benchmark pricing and packaging decisions against comparable titles' performance before launching your new titles.

• Track live service events & offers: Monitor when live service titles launch new seasons, battlepasses, or DLC, so you can measure their revenue impact.

• Spot sales trends: Identify when titles run sales promotions to understand their discounting strategy and how it impacts revenue.

Get Started

Console add-on spend is available now for VGI subscribers with PC and console access on the latest version of the interface. Not a subscriber yet? This is the moment to start – the new VGI interface is the destination for all upcoming releases, including broader country breakdowns, playtime metrics, and more ways to interact with video game data.

Want a first look at the data? Schedule time with us below by hitting "Request a Demo". We’re excited to walk you through it.