Steam gamers relegate Apple Mac to THIRD place — thanks to the Steam Deck
It finally happened.
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Happy Tuesday gamers, there’s some newSteam hardware surveyinformation out (thanksGamingOnLinuxfor the heads up) to have a look at and it shows something quite interesting. And very fun.
While Windows has seen a very small decrease in the overall share, the real story is that the ‘all-conquering’ Mac has been relegated to third place. And that’s despite a small increase in its own share of the pie. The reason? Linux. More specifically, theSteam Deck.
If you’ll bear with me a second, I’m just sending a hamper to the guys over atiMoreto cheer them up.
It’s definitely not “the year of the Linux desktop” pushing the numbers up, as when you drill down further into the numbers SteamOS makes up 42% of the overall Linux share, up almost 3% on the last release of the survey.
Why the sudden jump? Well, the Steam Deck is always one of the most popular purchases on Steam, literally every week. But the recent summer sale also saw the first real discounts on the hardware since it came out, so it makes sense that there has been a sudden jump.
DespiteApple’s work and recent focus on getting gamers to play on Mac, it still found itself falling behind. Granted, this is only Steam numbers, but Steam is also the single largest place gamers go to for any kind of non-console gaming. It’s also further proof that handheld PC gaming is definitely continuing to rise in popularity, and I still firmly believe that SteamOS is the absolute best in the business right now for this. The Steam Deck is also a portable PC, so you can use it when you don’t want to game as well.
Maybe Apple needs to try a little harder…
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