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Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

The user figures are strongly impacted by the closing of Microsoft's acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard

I was sceptical of the 500m figure for Xbox (even if we include Xbox on Windows); but it makes sense if they include Battle.net figures I guess..

[-] 8uurg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Don't forget Minecraft either.

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

In the fiscal quarter ending June 2024, Microsoft reported over 500 million monthly active gaming users across all platforms and devices

I assume that includes Windows as a platform, which would include Steam users as well. It's easy to look good when you include your competitor's numbers in your own.

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