A few days ago, Valve released the annual summary report of the 2021 Steam platform. Among them, last year, the cumulative usage time of global players on Steam reached 38 billion hours (about 430 years), an increase of 21% year-on-year, the number of monthly active users has reached 132 million, the number of daily active users is 69 million, and the peak number of online users has also set a record of 27.4 million.
According to the relevant data released by the official, in 2021, the total player consumption of Steam increased by 27% year-on-year, and the number of new purchase users was 31.2 million, of which 34% of users also used the new function of "remote fun". In addition, Steam's digital gift card performance has also grown rapidly, with its turnover increasing by 43% year-on-year in 2021.
In fact, in recent years, some exclusive games that were previously on PlayStation and Xbox game consoles have also landed on the Steam platform, and a large number of game developers have also revealed their intention to launch PC games on Steam.
It is worth mentioning that the recent Steam hardware product Steam Deck officially launched, it is reported that the Steam Deck is similar to Nintendo Switch in appearance, the fuselage weighs about 669 grams, equipped with a 7-inch touch screen, gyroscope, stereo speaker and dual microphone, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. In the processor segment, Valve chose to partner with AMD and use the latter's latest CPU and GPU architecture, which is close to mid-range gaming laptops that can run AAA non-VR games with a resolution slightly higher than 720P.
In this regard, Valve President Gabe Newell has said, "The development of the Steam Deck game handheld is a transition to the future of high-performance VR all-in-ones, but now the VR all-in-one is not ready." In addition, the initial availability of the Steam Deck is still limited, only for some countries in Europe and the United States for the time being, but the company has said that it will increase production capacity in the future and sell it in more regions.
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