{"id":72565,"date":"2015-02-26T06:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=72565"},"modified":"2015-02-26T06:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:59:04","slug":"steam-gaming-smashes-playstation-and-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/72565-steam-gaming-smashes-playstation-and-xbox","title":{"rendered":"Steam gaming smashes PlayStation and Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve’s supremely popular distribution platform Steam has more users than some countries have people.<\/p>\n

The platform has over 125 million active accounts according to Valve, which is greater than the population of places like Mexico, Egypt, Germany, and France.<\/p>\n

Heck, it’s almost as big as Japan – 126 million people.<\/p>\n

If you assume that every Steam user buys one full-release title a year (which is a completely unrealistic an absolutely minimalist idea), that’s about $6.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Valve reportedly<\/a><\/strong> takes a minimum of 30% from game sales through Steam, which is a comfortable $2 billion for the company.<\/p>\n

Like we said, that’s a minimal<\/em> outlook. With massive releases almost every month and sales happening throughout the year, gamers fork out way more than $50 on Steam in one year.<\/p>\n

No wonder the great Gaben is estimated to be worth billions<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Dominating current-gen\u00a0gaming<\/h3>\n

Top put Steam’s user figures into perspective, let’s\u00a0look at the rest of the gaming\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n

If you’re a PC gamer and want to feel a little bit more elitist, you’ll be delighted to know only two consoles have ever surpassed the 120 million unit mark.<\/p>\n

The Nintendo DS has sold over 154 million units since 2004, and the current crown-holder for top-selling console – the PlayStation 2 – is sitting pretty at over 155 million.<\/p>\n

And no one really plays on those anymore. Do they?<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a>

Steam vs the rest<\/p><\/div>\n

Total PS4 sales are approaching 19 million, with the PS3’s sales sitting at around 83 million. So Steam trumps Sony there.<\/p>\n

Total Xbox One sales are over 10 million, and the Xbox 360 moved 84 million units – so, again, PC gaming comes out on top.<\/p>\n

With the Nintendo Wii hitting over 100 million sales, and the Wii U chugging along at about 9 million, Steam is even beating the grand-daddy of gaming (though perhaps not when comparing the company’s hand-held figures, which are\u00a0over 200 million with the NDS and 3DS).<\/p>\n

So, assuming that Steam is a fairly accurate measure of the PC gaming community at large, it’s definitely up there as one of the largest.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a>

Steam vs Nintendo vs PS vs Xbox<\/p><\/div>\n

For a little bit of sobering\u00a0perspective, in 2014 Apple hit its 500 millionth iPhone sold and Android devices outstrip that figure two-fold.<\/p>\n

We’re not saying that everyone who owns an iPhone plays games on it, of course, but with well over 50 billion app downloads the numbers speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

More on Steam<\/h3>\n

SA vs the world: best countries to be a Steam gamer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Best broadband speeds for SA Steam gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Is your PC more powerful than the Steam average?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steam has more users than most countries have people – we kid you not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":66477,"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":[3],"tags":[21,85],"class_list":["post-72565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72565","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72573,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72565\/revisions\/72573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}