Following the radical changes to Steam’s statistics in February, which can be explained «by the Chinese invasion» (or some kind of mistake), the numbers returned to previous trends.
English is once again the most popular language, with a share of 36.50% and a 12.71% increase, which is unlikely to be due to natural causes, like last month’s Chinese leadership. Simplified Chinese has a modest» 25.04% instead of the fantastic 50.6%. This makes me think of a doubling of Chinese statistics due to a mistake, which is not the first time this has happened. Ukrainian was chosen by 0.73% of users, 0.24% more than in February. This allowed it to overtake Italian (0.65%) in the table and almost approach Thailand (0.85%). In general, all languages increased their share due to the disappearance of Chinese «glitch».
As expected, Windows 11 (55.34%, +11.24%) returned to the lead after the «Chinese» triumph of Windows 10, which now has 40.58%. Surprisingly, OSX (1.58%, +0.61%) is slowly growing, a rather large increase.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (4.60%, -3.77%) is no longer the leader, as it has lost ground to its predecessor RTX 3060 (4.94%), as it was before. The mobile RTX 4060 is in third place (4.32%), followed by the old GTX 1650 with a share of 3.42% and a huge increase of almost 1%. The only new NVIDIA Blackwell video card, RTX 5080 is in ninth place… at the end of a long list, and Radeon RX 9000 are not represented in significant numbers at all.
Where AMD has taken revenge is in processors. Ryzen is still in second place, but with an increase to 37.62% (+6.55%) and a corresponding decrease in Intel’s share to 62.3%. Probably, the new popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming chips are doing their job, but It would be better if they broke down less.
The overall picture of Steam statistics is clearly visible in the form of February peaks and troughs on the traditional infographic. It’s noticeable that after some kind of glitch, everything seems to have gone back to normal, so the Chinese invasion probably didn’t happen.
