Valve: majority of gamers are still on Windows XP
December 19th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 85 times, 1 so far today
Valve: majority of gamers are still on Windows XP
Microsoft might have practically discontinued their Windows XP operating system but it remains the preferred operating system for gamers.
Valve has released the latest Steam user metrics and majority of gamers on this platform are still using Windows XP operating system.
Looking at the stats, 68% of Steam users are on 32-bit version of Windows XP.
Around 21% of the users are running Vista and a DirectX 10-capable video card.
25% of the Steam users are running Windows XP along with DirectX 10-capable video card.
While, majority (54%) of the gamers are still stuck on DirectX 9 or below video cards.
There are more interesting statistics in this report. Nvidia dominates ATI with 64% market share. ATI is at 27%. Intel’s share is at a low 2%.
One good news is that almost half of the gamers are on dual-core processors. Around 10% gamers are using a quad core processor system. Rest of the gamers are still on single core processors.
Intel has a solid market share here with a 64% market share. AMD is trailing with 37% share.
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December 27th, 2008 at 02:36 pm
Its good to see that 101% of people either have AMD or Intel processors. :)
April 20th, 2009 at 04:25 am
lol, i can’t belive that people can’t see that problem. How can you get 101% of people. :)
May 1st, 2009 at 01:52 pm
ah well it said share of the market… this means that its not talking about people more product which is sold… ie business or people who have more than one computer.
June 18th, 2009 at 02:30 am
Uhm, are you guys daft? It’s more likely then anything a rounding error. It’s much better to print 64% and 37% then 63.58327483927478937893789342978, etc.