11-14-2017, 09:19 AM
The article has been updated with this:
I'm not buying it, based on this comment:
Quote:Multiple readers have written to suggest this could be a surge related to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds opening in China. If so, it would be an extraordinary event — I can’t recall a single time when one title so overwhelmingly tilted Steam results in a given direction. But as multiple readers have observed, PUBG is now pulling in 2x to as much as 5x more players than the current second-place game, depending on when you check the data.
If this hypothesis is accurate, Steam’s current data set cannot be reconciled with Steam’s previous data set. The figures reported for dramatically decreased market share for AMD, as well as the surge in Windows 7, are not inaccurate relative to the number of systems running Steam. But they cannot be compared with the previous survey results and do not represent a falloff of AMD sales, Windows 10 market share, VR headset sales, or a sea change in quad-core CPU shipments.
I'm not buying it, based on this comment:
Quote:At first glance it seems likely but according to Steamspy China only accounts for 10% of the user base of steam. So it's pretty much impossible for this to account for the differences. 10% of a user base can't shift things this dramatically even if there wasn't a single AMD user Win10 user in China it couldn't account for a 21% drop if W10 and 17% increase in Nvidia.