PC Gaming Statistics 2022

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PC Gaming continues to be one of the most popular forms of video gaming despite increasingly impressive competition from both the console market and mobile gaming platforms. The PC Hardware industry alone is set to be worth $70 Billion by 2023, showing that many are still heavily invested in having the best possible hardware in their PC builds for gaming.
And, when it comes to PC gaming, Steam is still the platform of choice for consumers as it still sits comfortably in the top spot when it comes to video game sellers, bringing in $4.3 Billion in 2017 alone.

Sources: VGA24/7, DFCint, NewZoo, Steam

Form Factor Market Share

Video game market revenue worldwide in 2021

CPU Brand Share

PC Processors running the Steam platform 2021

GPU Brand Share

PC GPU usage on Steam by type 2021

Steam Users

Peak concurrent Steam users 2021

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the most played game on Steam with

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as of December 2021.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is the most played game on Steam as of December 2021 with 554,602 concurrent users.

Statista, 2021

In September 2021 there were

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concurrent Steam users.

The number of Steam users jumped from 95 to 120 million users per month in 2020, then in September 2021, another high score was reached when the peak number of concurrent Steam users hit 26.09 million.

Statista, 2021

PUBG is the best-selling PC game of all time with over

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sold worldwide

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds sold the most units and is recognized as the best selling PC game of all time around the world, with a total 70 million units sold across all platforms as of July 2020.

Statista, 2021

Steam game sales revenue reached

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in 2017

Steam game sales revenue reached 4.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, that’s an 18.6% increase from 2015

VG24/7, 2018

The PC gaming hardware market will be worth

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by 2022

It’s estimated that the PC gaming hardware market will be worth $37 Billion by 2022.

Statista, 2022

The PC global gaming industry will be worth

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by 2025

PC Global gaming industry was estimated to be worth 178.37 million U.S. dollars in 2021 and is expected to reach 268.82 million by 2025.

Statista, 2021

Overview

Despite the influx of impressive and affordable consoles over the years, PC gaming has remained a favorite for many. This is reflected in game development as PC is still the most popular platform for game developers with 56% developing games for the platform in 2020. The market is set to reach an impressive worth of $39.5 Billion by 2023.
Sources: GDC, NewZoo

2022 Update

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 32% of game developer respondents to a survey on creativity and productivity whilst working from home game said it was ‘about the same’, with 24% responding with ‘somewhat decreased’ and 20% responding with ‘somewhat increased’.

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In 2021, Asia represented more than a third of global PC gamers with 687 million PC gamers, whilst Europe ranked second with 468.4 million PC gamers.

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PC Hardware

The PC game hardware industry shows no signs of slowing down as it is estimated to be worth $70 Billion by 2023. Thanks to a Steam user survey, we also have a good insight into the inner-workings of most PC gamer’s setups. We know that Nvidia dominates the GPU market with a 74% share, and Intel easily beats off AMD in terms of CPU shares with 74.4% to their 25.6%.
Sources: Steam, DFCint

2022 Update

In 2021, shipments of gaming notebooks were forecasted to reach 27.9 million units, with the growth of 33.7 million units by 2025. Gaming PCs are expected to reach 72.9 million by 2025.

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NVIDIA’s revenue from it’s Graphics segment in 2021 amounted to roughly 9.83 billion U.S dollars, whilst revenue from it’s Compute & Networking segment amounted to 6.84 billion U.S dollars.

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In the third quarter of 2021, NVIDIA accumulated 7.1Billion and 45% of this revenue was generated through their graphics processing units (GPU) sector.

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Steam

Steam continues to be a hugely successful platform for gamers as it’s userbase grew once again this year. Reaching 20.31 Million users in 2020, it has seen an impressive growth trajectory for the last few years. FPS and MOBA games are still amongst the most popular on the platform with PYBG, DOTA 2, and CS:GO heading up the rankings.
Sources: GitHyp, Statista

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In September 2021, Steam reached a peak of over 26.09 million concurrent users.

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In September 2021, Steam had 26.09 million concurrent users and the platform was in May 2021 with 26.85 concurrent users.

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PC Games

With over 70 million units sold worldwide, PUBG is the best-selling PC game of all time across all platforms. On PC alone though, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the most played game on Steam with over 789k players, followed by Dota 2 with 523k and PUBG with 315k.
Sources: PUBG Corporation, Steam

2022 Update

During a survey conducted in 2021, 27% of game developers worldwide stated they were working on VR games for the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset.

2022 Update

Amazon dominates a survey with 3 out of 5 countries positioning Amazon as their most favourable place to get Digital Video Game purchases by store brand. In the U.S, 42% submitted Amazon as their response with Google Play Store coming second at 36%.

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