Helps that the market is different from a decade or so ago.
-China opening up to Steam moreso than previous years
-PC market blew up in Japan as consoles became less popular and the mobile market being at the same place its been
-Some markets such as in South America where they have been affected by high costs for consoles and the games for the consoles, made people jump into PC gaming.
-The fact that you have a large library of games that Steam always had and the constant releases from Japan now alongside Sony + Microsoft first party titles coming helped a lot too.
-You can use several different controllers natively through Steam like the Switch pro controller, PS5 Dualsense, Xbox Series Controller and numerous other third party controllers alongside the usual M/K combo.
-Various social aspects such as trading cards, steam market, etc added throughout the years helped it too
-Consistent updates and add-ons such as the most recent built in recorder
-The introduction to mobile PCs such as Steam Deck and others helped.
And the fact that you can have any type of PC to be able to play the thousands of games, you dont need the most powerful quad digit PC.
Highly recommend Steam especially since you can get great bundles from Humble and Fanatical - which can lead to having a common first world problem like this....(lol)
