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Cueil on 13 November 2009

it's not sade it's the truth... CS:S > MW2



 
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kitler53 on 13 November 2009

is that just gold memeber or does it include silver members as well?



monlosez on 13 November 2009

Wasn't MW2 on PSN overloaded?



shio on 13 November 2009
NJ5 said:
The fact that the Steam peak was similarly-sized (even though the game is dumbed down on the PC) certainly puts some comments about the PC market's size into perspective.

Steam is bigger than Xbox Live. XBL only beat Steam because of the release of MW2, and the fact that most XBL users are concentrated in the americas (which means they're all in the same timezones). Steam is much more global, more evenly split between americas, europe and asia/oceania.

In the lowest hour of Steam, there are still over 900k Steam users logged on.

 

Also, we are still not counting Impulse, Battle.net, Gamersgate, D2D, etc... and the millions of people that play MMOs every second. And then....



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Boneitis on 13 November 2009
shio said:
NJ5 said:
The fact that the Steam peak was similarly-sized (even though the game is dumbed down on the PC) certainly puts some comments about the PC market's size into perspective.

Steam is bigger than Xbox Live. XBL only beat Steam because of the release of MW2, and the fact that most XBL users are concentrated in the americas (which means they're all in the same timezones). Steam is much more global, more evenly split between americas, europe and asia/oceania.

In the lowest hour of Steam, there are still over 900k Steam users logged on.

 

Also, we are still not counting Impulse, Battle.net, Gamersgate, D2D, etc... and the millions of people that play MMOs every second. And then....

Don't worry, no one is denying many more people are playing on thier PC.

But this is the first generation online play has really been taken seriously on consoles and its a huge success.



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yo_john117 on 13 November 2009

Wow thats sick!  I wonder how many out of the 2 mill are playing MW2?



JaggedSac on 13 November 2009
shio said:
NJ5 said:
The fact that the Steam peak was similarly-sized (even though the game is dumbed down on the PC) certainly puts some comments about the PC market's size into perspective.

Steam is bigger than Xbox Live. XBL only beat Steam because of the release of MW2, and the fact that most XBL users are concentrated in the americas (which means they're all in the same timezones). Steam is much more global, more evenly split between americas, europe and asia/oceania.

In the lowest hour of Steam, there are still over 900k Steam users logged on.

 

Also, we are still not counting Impulse, Battle.net, Gamersgate, D2D, etc... and the millions of people that play MMOs every second. And then....

And then lets see how many people are actually playing something on Steam vs just having it logged in and in the task bar?  Not many people leave their 360s running idle.

1.2 million people logged on to Steam, a little over 200,000 people playing something.

Halo 3 currently has 116,302 logged on and playing and I am quite certain MW2 has more than that.  So those two games alone have more people playing than on Steam at this point in time.

Steam is a DD portal first and foremost and a gaming portal second.  Live is the oposite.  Battle.net would be the closest comparison probably.  And I could not find any numbers for that.