And now the strange results:
DX8 share still growing, now over 9% of the Steam systems aren't allocated correctly:
Linux made a jump to 1.96% AND within this Linux share, 42% are Steam Decks? So Steam Deck tripled its share of the total Steam users base (Windows, Linux and Mac) within two months?
Well the new numbers could be possible, maybe the growth was stretched over more months and the reported Steam Deck numbers were too low in the older surveys.
If we go by the last reported "monthly active users" (MAU), it would be around one million Steam Decks in use: 120 million MAUs x 1.96% x 42% = 0,99 million Steam Decks. Total active Steam accounts are probably in the 200 - 300 million area... so 1 - 2 million active Steam Decks don't seem that far fetched.
Also in the hot summer months many PC gamers will pause gaming on their gaming rigs, while I don't see such a pause happening to PC gaming handhelds. Steam Deck were also discounted in the Steam Summer Sale, so a lot of new Deck owners testing their new toy.
What do you think?
Last but not least: a new Nvidia GPU showed up in the Steam hardware survey:
This seems to one of the Geforce Now systems, with about RTX 2060 performance.
Geforce Now has some lower performing rigs for older games not using raytracing or DLSS and some systems with higher performance (the former RTX 3080 subscription and the current RTX 4080 subscription)... but the T10-8 is probably still the majority of systems for their cloud gaming service.
