Nice, great news. Now I wonder what sales figures are?

Eff to the yeah!

I'm pretty sure those numbers include XBL Gold and Silver members.

I think so.

I mean, the concurrent number of users very rarely goes beyond 6 million, so they must count all the people with Steam.

From what I recall, their definition of an active user is someone who has purchased something (at any time) and logged on in the last 30 days.

my bad

I have Steam on my computer, downloaded Alan Wake cuz it was $5 bucks. Does that make me an active user? Anyway, I think Steam is great for those with computers but I don't know why it's being compared to Xbox Live which is focused on Xbox 360.

I doubt it... there is probably a timescale on it. My guess would be users who played a game in the last month or week.

The "concurrent steam users" graph currently waves between 3 and 6 million users at once over the course of a day (though that figure may be purely steam client users online, which means those who have it log them in on startup but not necessarily playing a game)

I think I am one of these active users (logged in almost 24/7), but I would not call myself a PC gamer anyway. I use Steam for a handful of games, but mostly to communicate with some of my friends. Never paid more than 10€ for a game on there, and I usually only game on my PC twice in a month or something like that.

But still, congratulations, though I really don't think that that number represents PC gamers.

pezus said: When HL3 comes out, we will be at 100m+ Steam Machines will help expand substantially.

Who knows what the future holds... Kinda exciting! PC gaming has been on the comeback for a while now!