Jun 4, 2010
Some remarks on the Recent Valve Hardware Survey
By: Kyle
Valve recently released it’s monthly hardware survey detailing various statistics on hardware in use by its vast Steam user base. The newest survey now includes data culled from its new OS X user base, and the effects that OS X has on the hardware survey is interesting.
Of the biggest note is OS Share. According to the survey, every version of Windows indicated in the survey saw a decrease in users (with Windows XP taking the biggest hit at 4.70%).
All told, OS X took 8.46% of the Steam user marketshare in May. It should be noted that Steam support for Mac officially began on May 12, so the numbers should see some increase in the June survey.
It will be interesting to see the effects of OS X on the Steam user base as time goes on and developers release more titles on the Mac through Steam.