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Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Does anyone know how PSN and Xbox are doing?

PSN go to be higher considering it is relying on at least 2 generations? Do people still play ps3?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago

Here is an idea. Services that are proud of their user count tend to not hide real time data.

From what I see, there are no places where console networks share their data directly. It can only be found in financial reports or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Consoles are only "concurrent" when somebody is actively gaming on them, while my PC is active all day long and I might not game on it at all.

Steam (and presumably however MS count Windows gamers) will always lead on that particular metric.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is concurrent players, as in at the same time, I don't think console is matching that, either of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I get PS gaming won at the end of the day but I guess it makes sense since it is a more open and modular platform.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

PSN had 129 million MAU in December 2024. Source. That’s less than Steam had in 2021 - 132 million MAU. Source.

Across all platforms, including Xbox and PC, Microsoft reported 500 million MAU in the fiscal quarter ending June 2024. Source.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The user figures are strongly impacted by the closing of Microsoft's acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard

I was sceptical of the 500m figure for Xbox (even if we include Xbox on Windows); but it makes sense if they include Battle.net figures I guess..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

In the fiscal quarter ending June 2024, Microsoft reported over 500 million monthly active gaming users across all platforms and devices

I assume that includes Windows as a platform, which would include Steam users as well. It's easy to look good when you include your competitor's numbers in your own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Don't forget Minecraft either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

PSN absolutely isn't higher. -Monthly- active users I believe is the only statistic they release though, and that will be significantly higher than concurrent on any platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Yes people still play on PS3 and servers for COD games and Battlefield 4 for example are still up and active.