20 points

huh, what dropped in 2020 that caused that big spike?

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COVID-19. 😏

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Damn, you reply quick. yep, I realized the instant i asked and felt stupid, eheh.

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Don’t delete your comment for asking a legit question! Others might be ignorant as well and benefit from the Q&A.

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basically yeah, covid-19 ontop of console shortage and people getting more free time/unemployment checks boosted the PC space a lot.

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Gaben behind Covid-19 confirmed?

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38 million only? I thought there were way more gamers out there. Isn’t it a market bigger than TV and cinema combined? (maybe even sports included?)

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These are concurrent users, i.e. the number of players all playing at one time. The total number of Steam users is WAY higher.

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I wonder how many millions they need to be inspired to update their platform so it doesn’t need a regular outage every Tuesday.

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26 points

Wild that the video game industry is so big, and this still isn’t even 1% of people on earth.

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Sure, but 38,000,000 x $60 = $2,280,000,000. And that’s if they all spend only $60/year, and only on Steam, and the average I’m sure is much higher.

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We i need to tech bro take over whatever industry actually gets to all 7 bln

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It’s not counting yearly users either, it’s concurrent players

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Yeah. That was just an example. If ~35 million users bought one game a year, you get that number. Of course the actual number is much larger.

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Yeah but you’d think more what use steam. I wonder what the platform breakdown is .

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39 points

90% mobile phones my guy.

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Also keep in mind this is peak concurrent players. I imagine the MAU is much higher, since most of the world doesn’t game at the same time.

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52 points

steam survey says 1.92% is on linux. So there’s about 736,651 linux users on steam?! neat

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Many of those Steam Deck, I bet.

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Bazzite on my desktop and a Steamdeck here!

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https://partner.steamgames.com/ says there are 132 million monthly active Steam users, so that’s more like 2.5 million Linux users on Steam.

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so cocurrent means monthly active?

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