Valve Releases Latest Steam PC Hardware Survey - briefly
(hx) 09:17 PM CEST - May,15 2008
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Valve has revealed
the
results of its latest PC hardware survey, which polled 1,728,662 Steam users
from November 13, 2007 to May 15, 2008. Among the findings, the company
reported that Nvidia cards occupy the top six slots of video hardware among
Steam users, with the GeForce 8800 leading at 9.36%. The most common RAM
configuration was 2GB and above. Other interesting results include the ability
of 9.57% to utilize DirectX10. Yes, only ~"10%" have DX10, and only "10%" have
an 8800GTX.....but this data includes many gamers that would NEVER play a game
like Half-life or COD4. Adventure gamers are now running steam. Sam and Max as
well as games like Culpa Innata and Runaway have been added. Puzzle games like
Puzzle Quest and the various Pop Cap games are also added, and far cheaper than
their website prices on weekend sales / packages. This means non-action gamers
are now part of these surveys. Which means onboard video cards and low end
hardware have taken a bit of a leap. While technically this is a more realistic
idea of who owns what - it makes the average hardcore gamer appear to be a far
smaller number. ..just idea :-) |
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