Today, the video game industry is a juggernaut of development and profit drives technological advancement. Video games now touch all corners of the earth and is one of the largest entertainment businesses of this generation. With such a large audience and large profits, the gaming industry has created a very competitive market for itself. With any competitive market, rivals will strive to advance quicker than each other; this makes a very favorable market for consumers. Video games of today are available on numerous different platforms

Of course these are only a few platform which video games are made for today.

In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms.

Video game manufacturers today have developed game engines which can be run on which ever platform they please, allowing the manufacturers to focus more on game content than on coding to play the game on a specific platform. This also gives the manufacturers the chance to market their games to a much greater audience, resulting in greater profit.