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The Steam Hardware Stats [1] also show the following abysmal market share:

    Windows  96.24%
    OSX       2.95%
    Linux     0.72%

If you aren't Windows in the PC gaming space, you really don't have a leg to stand on when trying to force developers to work your way.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

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A bunch of us have both a mac and a windows pc for gaming, and would like to just use one computer for gaming. I wonder what the stats are for users that have both, and how much more / less they spend than windows PC only users.

Sure, but Steam is a horrible experience on the Mac. When I find a game that looks cool, Steam is the last place I look for it because I hate using Steam. I go to the Mac App Store first (think about that!) because Steam is so awful. I'll even pay full price on the Mac App Store when Steam has the same game on sale because Steam is painful to use. It's only when a title can't be found outside of Steam that I use it.

On the other hand: There are very few Steam games for Mac.

As someone who games using Steam on a Mac (not a big gamer):

ouch.

I seem to recall a company called palm say almost the same thing about phones and a certain fruit company.

Be careful what you believe in.

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