Steam Is Dominating Xbox Live In Terms of Active Gamers
According to Techspot, the digital game distributor – and publisher of games like Left 4 Dead, Portal and, of course, Half-Life – explained that the service has managed to grow quite a bit, and now has a a total of over 67 million active monthly users. No doubt there are many great games to support them, including titles in Early Access, like the best-selling Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds.
And to put into contrast just how big a number that is, it noted that the number is far bigger than that of Xbox Live’s tally, which currently clocks in at 53 million. And keep in mind that Microsoft’s service has been around just as long.
Valve attributed a good portion of this success from the overseas market, namely Asia, a country that has seen 17 percent of the service’s overall sales numbers. Valve’s Tom Giardino has noted that the service has grown thanks to the localization of stores, as well as supporting the platform with different payment methods, so consumers won’t be shut out if they don’t necessarily have a credit card to call their own.
That said, Valve has managed to do what Microsoft couldn’t, as the Xbox has been suffering quite a bit in those markets, even with support from a number of reputable third-party publishers and developers, including Hironobu Sakaguchi. (Remember Lost Odyssey?) Perhaps it’s the ease of access with the service, or the wide range of games that are available. After all, millions of users flock to Steam every time there’s some sort of epic sale taking place.
We’ll continue to see Steam grow in the years ahead with even more Early Access hits and indie support. As for Xbox, they’re doing well in their own right, but one has to question just how well the Xbox One X will hold up.
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Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2017/08/06/steam-is-dominating-xbox-live-in-terms-of-audience/
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CraigPosted:
Steam's Early Access is just getting better and better at the minute, so this will only continue to grow over the next few months/years...
TOXICPosted:
I know Steam is popular, but im just not that into in to be honest, Xbox always the way, for me anyways.
315Posted:
Sooo I'm pretty sure PlayStation has less active members if I'm correct. So if anyone was to worry. It would be them. I believe I saw their number around 27 million active subscribers for psPlus which is needed to play online. But who knows.
gownPosted:
"Valve attributed a good portion of this success from the overseas market, namely Asia, a country that has seen 17 percent of the services overall sales numbers."
DanielPosted:
Not surprised at all, PC can do multiple things and a lot more things than an Xbox can do, Plus PC gaming is a lot better than Console.
ShinyJolteonPosted:
I can see how, most of the people that I was playing with back then on console are all now on PC.
VariPosted:
Not even surprised by this, Steam is huge as well as the fact that PC gaming is much better than console gaming.
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