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Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel (www.tomshardware.com)
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[+] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Closing in on 8% if you filter it by "English language only". Chinese speakers overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) use Windows and make up about 30% of all Steam users, which skews the rest-of-world results. And I wouldn't consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke, especially since that number only keeps on rising and by the time you've spent a few years writing a game it's likely to be quite a bit more.

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Massaging the data to meet your desired stats. Like a politician.

    Why not exclude even more countries that mostly use windows and then say "99% of steam users are using Linux*"

    *based on users in Afghanistan only

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If you exclude non English language, you have to exclude their sales too.. unless you're suggesting the Chinese users that make up 30% of steam users don't buy anything...

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    True. Was thinking of indie games, of the kind I might develop myself., which would be limited to the languages I speak myself.

    If you're developing something where you'd expect enough international sales to hire a translation team, then Chinese would be a sensible first choice, followed by Spanish.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    no it's followed by Japanese. Japan is the third largest market by videogame revenue. Sure Spanish is spoken by a large portion of the world population, but the video game revenue the Spanish speaking countries generate isn't as large as that of Japan. Latin-American countries are middle income countries and if you sell games there you have to sell them at localized pricing. In Japan you can sell your game at around the same price as you'd sell the game in the US and the EU.

    Japan generates about $26 billion in video game revenue while Latam around $13 billion and Spain €2.4 billion according to these sources
    https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/video-game-market/japan
    https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/video-game-market/latin-america
    https://aevi.org.es/el-sector-del-videojuego-crecio-en-2024-con-una-facturacion-record-de-mas-de-2-408-millones-de-euros-y-22-millones-de-jugadores/ (FYI they use dots as a thousand separator in the 2.408 millones de euros)

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