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Wilds just got it over the edge it seems. Considering the MAU was about 130m back in 2021 that should be about 200m by now so the growth of Steam the past several years has truly been massive. It took till it was 16.5 years old to get to 20m but it's already doubled that in just another 5 years with growth in 2024 alone only being matched by 2020 so Steam just had a contender for its best year ever without a major pandemic significantly boosting things so the platform is truly in an incredible place currently.

Considering it gets almost everything other than Nintendo games now and is a fantastic platform to use in general it's no wonder people have been flocking to it lately. I wonder if it'll ever reach 100m concurrent users and while Steam is the biggest part of PC gaming it's by no means the only one so PC gaming as a whole is truly taking off which is great to see. Also for consoles only Nintendo has had huge growth the past few years and even that's been starting to stagnate recently so PC could end up being the only one to have major growth over the next 5-10 years.

Last edited by Norion - on 02 March 2025