Steam updated the record for the number of simultaneous users twice – Kommersant

American company Valve reported, that during the first weekend of March, the digital distribution service for video games Steam broke the record for the number of simultaneous online users. At the same time, the record was updated twice: first on Saturday, March 2, and then on Sunday, March 3, when more than 34.7 million people were online at the same time, of which almost 11.2 million were playing games.

The previous Steam online record was set in January 2024, when 33.7 million people simultaneously used the service. In the media noted, that the service is growing due to the popularity of the portable console Steam Deck. The Steam service has been actively expanding since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, but then the growth in the number of users slowed down for some time.

Previously Valve updated rules of the digital video game store Steam, as a result of which it became possible to publish the majority of games in which part of the content was created using artificial intelligence.

Read about why the gaming market is growing in the material “Citizens spent money on games”.

Evgeniy Fedunenko