Steam Hardware Survey: December 2009

This is a great study of "what does an average gamer have?", for "what does an average casual game player have?" the unity hardware study is great http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hwstats/

Of note, a around 35-40% of unity users have Intel graphics hardware and have dramatically lower resolution screens.

on a unrelated note, Steam is having a awesome holiday sale, where most of games are selling at a discount of 50%-80%. So all you frugal gamers should be buying now.

http://store.steampowered.com/

note: I am not related to either Steam or Valve in anyway, I just love Steam as it has made my life easier wrt playing and managing games.

I don't know about you guys but I never run a Windows OS on a machine without a corresponding UNIX system as dual boot. Therefore I always use Nvidia cards now because I like semi-functional drivers in Linux. I guess Linux users aren't a huge percentage but writing useable AMD/ATI drivers for Linux may land a few.

This is odd:

October Windows 7 increase: +3.06% November Windows 7 increase: +3.62% December Windows 7 increase: +2.47%

I would have expected a much bigger X-Mas bump for Windows 7 but instead December was the smallest increase since its release.