{"id":112659,"date":"2016-12-01T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T09:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=112659"},"modified":"2016-12-01T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T09:37:31","slug":"38-of-all-steam-games-were-released-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/112659-38-of-all-steam-games-were-released-in-2016","title":{"rendered":"38% of all Steam games were released in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to new statistics released by SteamSpy, over 38% off all the games in Steam&#8217;s library were released in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As at the time of writing, that equates to over 4,207 games released in 2016, up from\u00a02964 in 2015 and just\u00a0565 in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The uptick has been cause primarily by initiatives like Greenlight which makes publishing games much easier for indie developers.<\/p>\n<p>It could also point to an increasingly open level of\u00a0control via Steam admins as they allow &#8220;anything and everything&#8221; onto the service.<\/p>\n<p>A less cynical gamer could also point to this being proof of increased accessibility to\u00a0game development and publishing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Steam-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112661\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Steam-graph.jpg\" alt=\"steam-graph\" width=\"897\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Steam-graph.jpg 897w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Steam-graph-768x605.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">38% of all Steam games were released in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JiX2pt6JhB\">pic.twitter.com\/JiX2pt6JhB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steam Spy (@Steam_Spy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steam_Spy\/status\/804072335997358084\">November 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><b><\/b><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111601-is-it-worth-waiting-for-the-next-steam-sale.html\" target=\"_blank\">Is it worth waiting for the next Steam sale?<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new statistics released by SteamSpy over 38% off all the games in Steam&#8217;s library were released in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,23581,21011,85],"class_list":["post-112659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-numbers-38","tag-quality","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112663,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112659\/revisions\/112663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}