The news about new peak concurrent Steam users just keeps coming! After Monster Hunter Wilds’ launch made waves across the gaming community with its Steam concurrent player count entering the top five highest ever, it seems that the popularity of the PC platform has never been higher – as Steam itself just broke a record too. Within the last hour at time of writing, Steam just hit a new all-time peak online user count of approximately 40,235,000. That’s over 40 million gamers all online using Steam at the same time!
Now if we’re really being picky, you don’t have to be gaming to be online on Steam, and lots of people do have it set to auto-launch when a PC boots up. Regardless, this is still a huge sign of the rising PC market and the demand to play games on Steam. Just in the last 24 hours there were two titles with over a million concurrent players, those being Counter-Strike 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds.
We’ve been seeing signs for a while now of a rising PC market. Steam concurrent user peaks have been getting higher on individual games, and game developers have been getting their games out on the platform faster, instead of adding a big delay. Take for example how both PlayStation Studios and Xbox have been releasing almost their entire recent gaming libraries on Steam, or even the new Monster Hunter Wilds releasing on PC same-day as its console counterpart when its former Monster Hunter World took months.
It feels like we’re going to keep getting new stories about how Steam games are breaking records, but today the spotlight goes on Steam itself. How often do you use Steam? Are you one of the 40 million gamers contributing towards the record-breaking concurrent user count today? Let us know in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more breaking gaming news.
