https://medium.com/steam-spy/steam-sales-in-2015-2e81a6bb0f5a#.l4xixaecy

Important note: The following data was gathered using Steam Spy service. Steam Spy estimates ownership of games on Steam using statistical analysis and is not 100% accurate!

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So these are the Steam numbers for the year? Quite decent...

Those CSGO legs tho.

I do hope that people read the stats and notice it's all using Stream Spy because as the article states SS is not 100% accurate.

I'm also fascinated with how this site has gained a small interest in PC sales data despite the user base on here being very minute and well the majority of users not being generally interested in the platform and I know people don't just live their life to look at PC sales and nod their head on a forum, there's more reason to be "intrigued" than that.

Those Cities Skylines sales are amazing! And well deserved

Still impressed on how well CS:GO is still selling.

There is even less interest in PC sales then mobile.. At least mobile sales threads gets at 10 "mobile gaming sucks" posts..

I don't really find it weird at all. This is a site that's dedicated to tracking sales, and I think a lot of users here have a sort of "abnormal" (for lack of a better word) interest in these kinda numbers and metrics. It's the same reason why quite a few people here are rather interested in the Box Office I think. It's just that up until recently, we had no semi-relaible source for sales on PC, but now we do.

I see people using Steamspy quite a lot here when discussing sales really.

And also I think you underestimate the amount of people that game on PC here. Just because someone is primarily a console gamer doesn't mean they don't have a Steam account and own a fair few games. (I consider myself a "console gamer" but last year I almost only gamed on PC, and while my library isn't as astronomically large as some PC gamers' is, I do have 48 games in my Steam library).

lol, probably because mobile gamers are a microscopic minority on here (can't say I've seen a single mobile first gamer talk out on here). I just find it odd how the recent innovation that is SS has seen a slight rise in this site and some others adopting usage of it even though said sites always talk about being wary of inncaruate sales data but are willing to use an innacurate system to place a dot on a platform as a whole even though again the data isn't in full and thus shouldn't be used as much, to me I'm seeing both good and bad from SS, good as in we get a rough idea of what's going on but at the same time bad because people use that rough data to smear the platform (shit sales, PC gaming is dying, filfthy pirates etc).

Also I think there is at least one guy on here that loves mobile gaming and would gladly use it against PC (throwing one platform under another's bus)

I know this is a site for tracking sales data but I find the notion of only being into the numbers as an odd thing, especially since a few people just use the "I;m just into numebrs" as their reason and yet there is always a depper meaning to such a thing (like saying "I like moeny" but it;s clear why I like money and what I want to spend it on if you know me as a person).

Yeah I have noticed that for a while now.

It;s not that I underestimate, it's that I feel a rift in who primarily games on a PC and another who plays chess on it or a few games from 20 years ago but plays most of today's games on another system, I mean if we go with stretched definitions then I'm officially a newspaper editor ebcause I happen to own a typewriter and can use it whenever possible, I don't own an up to date model but it counts for something right?.

In the end we all have our main prefs, despite owning multiple platforms there is a definition for what we are based on what we currently game on, otherwise like before with the stretching of definitions, we're all PC gamers and yet that isn't really a true thing.

I have 234 games on Steam, practically all the games on Battle.net, 13 games over on GoG and about 10 on Origin.