Steam is doing quite well: 100% sales increase, 40 million registered accounts

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Panama said:
And yet the highest amount of people I've ever seen on any single game is just a little over 100k if not close to 200k when Skyrim launched. I'm assuming the majority just use it to chat. Steam is great, it just feels as though there is no PC community though even with 40million members. The online community of anything but AAA mainstream games die in obscurity within weeks if not days. I received Crysis 2, LotR:WitN, MoH, Fear 3 among others all on the first day of launch, some as gifts so don't judge. All dead within weeks. Worst offenders of this were Brink and Homefront, though they weren't exactly great games.

What I do like about steam though, it seems to be a great avenue for indie developers to garner popularity. It might just be more effective at doing so than XBLA.

All those games were flops tho especially on PC, I doubt you would have much better luck finding a game on PS3 for most of them as well, it's not a PC exclusive problem at all. It would be interesting to see how many people are actively playing games on PSN and XBL but nether release those numbers, other than a few games like COD and Halo and new releases I doubt there would be many games with over 100k active players on there ether tho.