{"id":124058,"date":"2022-03-09T10:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T08:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124058"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T08:14:19","slug":"the-steam-2021-review-69-million-daily-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124058-the-steam-2021-review-69-million-daily-players","title":{"rendered":"The Steam 2021 review – 69 million daily players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve has published its Steam 2021 review, which showed that the popular PC gaming platform had a bumper year.<\/p>\n

During the last 12 months, Steam had an average of 132 million monthly and 69 million daily active players.<\/p>\n

It also reached a staggering 27.4 concurrent players.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the gaming platform reported 31.2 million buyers, 27% more spending, and 21% more playtime than 2020.<\/p>\n

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The Steam player stats from 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n

A massive 32.9 exabytes of data was delivered during 2021, which translates to 32.9 million terabytes of data.<\/p>\n

Along with this Steam also saw 2.6 million digital gift cards being sent by users during 2021 and the total dollar value of the cards was a 43% increase from 2020.<\/p>\n

Additionally, despite Valve not releasing any VR games in 2021 Steam still saw the VR user base grow by 11% with a 22% increase in unique play sessions.<\/p>\n

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Remote Play allows users to play games on their PC with other devices – this allows for local multiplayer with only one person needing to own the game.<\/p><\/div>\n

Steam also unveiled the most popular graphics cards used by its users.<\/p>\n

The winner was the GeForce GTX 1060, which was used by 8% of all users, while the GTX 1650 and GTX 1050 Ti followed closely behind with a 6% user share.<\/p>\n

You can see the full review here<\/a> and the hardware breakdown here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: <\/strong>Evetech vs. Rebel Tech \u2013 Where to buy PC components<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is Steam’s review for 2021 and all the exciting details from last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":124059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[25885,85,25886],"class_list":["post-124058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-pc","tag-25885","tag-steam","tag-steam-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124058","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}