That is interesting. I’m sure some bought PCs, or received them from work, to be able to work from home and then found out you could also play games on them.Weird how every other platform peaked during Covid then dipped and Steam just keeps getting bigger
More are playing HD2 and in a month from now the gap will be even larger.
Recent increase? YES
Mibu no ookami
and me are right that sony is loosing big time by not doing their own store. Who would have thought.
That would be under the bizarre assumption that customers would follow Sony in mass on "their own store".So that would mean
Because most players don't exist in a vacuum. One platform has a track record while the other wouldn't.
You always find someway to credit Sony
Yeah then GaaS and F2P helped bring it back to life.
Pioneers of Electronics and this IndustryYou always find someway to credit Sony
PS5 is never gonna catch up to Steam this generation or ever again. Steam went from being used by a minority of people in the PS2 era to becoming popular but much smaller than than the PS3 in the 360/PS3 era to matching the PS4 in the Xbox One/PS4 era to being so big the PS5 will never catch up in the PS5 era, Sony themselves expect to sell around 110-120mil PS5s which already can't match the current number of monthly active Steam users even if every PS5 was turned on every month which we know doesn't happen because A) PS5s break B) PS5s get put into storage C) PS5s become inactive like my brother's currently is.
No this is concurrent users i.e users all on at the same time. What you're describing is active users which is tracked by the monthly active users metric which Steam has north of 120mil users (actually more than that now but Valve doesn't report it often but it coincides with this metric and if concurrents go up so do monthly active I.e that figure is much bigger now than last reported). It's so many at this point PS5 will never catch up because even if PS5 sells 120mil consoles not all of those will be usable (i.e some eventually break), nor active and even if active they may not be active every month.
Sony is the reason Nvidia became a 2 trillion company.You always find someway to credit Sony
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At this point, I am beginning to count what "evil" decisions has this company ever made in the face of just consistent amazing decisions and support.
That’s what happens when you got a good product. And amazingly, I think the company hardly has any people working there, and they seem to do hardly any or zero advertising.At this point, I am beginning to count what "evil" decisions has this company ever made in the face of just consistent amazing decisions and support.
I think you’re right. Was linked to wayback machine on reddit, what you’re saying can be seen there.Personally I don't think Helldivers 2 or people leaving Xbox is the reason for the growth. If you check the chart it has been a steady growth for years now. I believe the majority of growth (but not all) is coming from China:
Steam February 2024 Hardware & Software Survey: Simplified Chinese surpasses English, becomes the most used language on the platform
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steamwww.neogaf.com
That Chinese % of total users has been growing fast.
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
In a fair and just world… yes.
I do not think Sony knows how to manage one on a platform they do not fully control and Steam is so much more than a store, it is an ecosystem (using Steam Deck you see that at play). They arguably had the best music store with Sony Connect and mismanaged it to oblivion.So that would mean
Personally I don't think Helldivers 2 or people leaving Xbox is the reason for the growth. If you check the chart it has been a steady growth for years now. I believe the majority of growth (but not all) is coming from China:
Steam February 2024 Hardware & Software Survey: Simplified Chinese surpasses English, becomes the most used language on the platform
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
That Chinese % of total users has been growing fast.
So that would mean
Do you disagree? I'm not saying that Steam in the EU/USA has not been growing, obviously it has, just that majority of the growth is likely coming from China due to the sharp increase in Simplified Chinese over the past few years.
I love that you need a couple of years to prepare your wife for this life-changing event!
As long as she don't ask me about the price, i'm a happy camper!
I love that you need a couple of years to prepare your wife for this life-changing event!
When I upgraded to my 4090-rig last year, I just put it up when my gf was out of the house, and she still haven't noticed any difference
Edit: or did you mean that the shift is to replace your wife with a PC? In that case I guess it's good to prepare her a bit!
Totally agree!
Have you ever seen a pcap file?
that's it right there. Games like Grim dawn release (titan quest devs redoing thier engine with a new setting) and i play it for 100s of hours multiple builds meanwhile console people have no idea it even exists. It eventually came out on xbox, where i am playing it again, at the couch. PC gets stuff like that all the time. Right now I am waiting for Manor Lords, which is a medieval city builder and rts (total war / mount and blade style). Games like enshrouded come and out and don't have to sell 10 millon copies to be successful. It doesnt' cost as much to develop as most pc gamers would rather gameplay over graphics.
