Steam Had 90 Million Monthly Active Users in 2018 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 March 2019 / 3,439 Views
Valve has released the Steam statistics for 2018. The digital distribution platform saw 47 million daily active users and 90 million monthly active users. The platform peaked at 18.5 million concurrent users and the number of new purchasers per month hit 1.6 million.
Valve also broke down the userbase by region. North America and Western Europe made up the majority of the userbase in 2012. However, that has changed in 2018 as Asia has a much larger marketshare than it did 2012. Valve will be supporting 40 different currencies and 26 different languages this year.
Valve also shared the most popular controllers on Steam. Over 30 million players have connected 60 million controllers to date. The Xbox 360 is the most popular controller on Steam, followed by the Xbox One. The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 controllers are the third and fourth most popular controllers, respectively.
Other controllers used include the Steam controller, PC Gamepad, Nintendo Switch Pro controller, PlayStation 2 controller, and more.
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Very nice to see Steam is still doing great. Looking forward to playing (so far) Steam exclusive Black Mesa Xen this year.
Look at that growth from China. Won't be long till China takes over gaming as a whole. You can already see their rather large companies funding Western ones (Bungie), as well as buying out shares (Epic) and even making their own high profile games (Bright Memory).
Nice to see the Steam gamepad is still getting some use out of it. Love using my Steam pad now and then.
That's the kind of growth in sales we want to see from China if the trade deficit is going lower at all between US and China. But the Chinese game industry is very fragile, just like any industry there. Censorship and business barriers are rampant. No new games were allowed to be licensed in China for much of 2018, Steam was capable of circumventing that.
