Valve published a lot of interesting information in its 2021 Steam Annual Report, including the use statistics of the handle. In 2021, a total of 48 million gamepads are connected to Steam, but only in 10% of games. The statistical handle data also includes the steering wheel, joystick, and even dance mat, and even bananas (before foreign netizens used bananas to make simple handles to play the old man ring). Basically, anything that can be connected to a PC and used to play games but not a mouse and keyboard counts as a controller.
In 2021, more than 70% of gamers use gamepads when playing fighting and sports games, compared to less than 1% in RTS games. In FPS, only 7-8% of players use a gamepad (after all, keypad shooting is more convenient). In third-person action/adventure games like Eldon's Ring of Law, the proportion of gamepads and keyboards and mice is almost halved.
Steam's report also notes that players spend 21 percent more time playing in 2021 than in 2020. There are about 69 million daily active users and 27.4 million online users. Steam also provides more than 32.9 exabytes of data (about 35326106009 GB), which is the amount of data for downloaded games in 2021.
As far as I know, the players and friends of our Ranger Network are all game gods. Xiaobian also launched a small survey here, is it customary to use a gamepad or a keyboard and mouse when playing games on the computer? Welcome to the voting below!