I'm so butthurt I lost my 2006 account, would have loved that 20 years is service badge instead I'm at 16.Imagine all the people over the past 20 years saying "PC is dead" finally eating crow, properly. Glad I've been onboard with Steam since day one, easily one of the best platforms to use. Mind you the below is not my original account but it's my current one.
Just for context... What do you think that "125 millions monthly users on PSN" means?
Steam shows CCU (how many people are logged in at any given time)Of course it does.
Mobile gaming is bigger than Steam and PlayStation combined - both by number of users, and by revenue. You can even throw Xbox and Nintendo in the mix for good measure, it doesn't matter.
The first part of the statement is completley false and borders on delusional revisionism.
Most analysts seem to have consensus that PC and Mobile gaming are the only platforms still experiencing meaningful YoY growth.
To be fair, people are much less likely to boot up their PS5 and not play games on it.
I mean, my very own PS4 Pro did almost nothing but play Youtube videos for the three years or so I owned it (before it died in a thunderstorm).
And before anybody tries to ask, "What else they would be doing when they boot up their PS5?"
Digital was always the natural development for PC with or without Steam. Buying DVD drives somewhat made sense back in the day, but BD drives? No one bought BD drives... so what would physical have looked like with 100GB+ games? The last physical game we got was Flight Sim 2020 and it looks like this
Going by all the Neogaf threads.
I just hit 16 years too, last month. I didn't login to my Steam account for years due to console gaming, but of course my games were still there the day that I did. Sony probably would have deleted my account. Now, as of around 3 years ago, I'm back on Steam probably around 90% of the time. And I don't see myself leaving again given the current state of consoles. It's PC + Nintendo starting in 2028 for me.
I get what you mean. I also sometimes use my console just for media consumption. What I'm saying is, the PC being a multi-function device makes it much more likely to be used for things other than gaming simply because it does a lot more. I use my PC for Stable Diffusion, UE5 training, drafting work documents, gaming, etc. My PS5 has been mostly idle for months because there's nothing it does my PC doesn't do better.
It was already dying with or without Steam existing.
MS needs to release an XBOX Steam machine that is more powerful at a reasonable price. They have the ability to do so with the Strix Halo APU.
I originally had a "day one" account I opened the very first day Steam started just as an experimental service hosting just Counter-strike. Before they even sold anything on it.
how did you lose your account?
Same for me, I had an original account for HL2, forgot about it until 2007 when I was starting to ease into digital on PC, and the email attached to it was from some older ISP I had.
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Steam's cashback system comes in the form of Steam Trading Cards.
You think people's "downloading habits" vary between regions?
Lots of Chinese pirates there right now using their Eneba keys
