Steam Hits 5 Million Concurrent Users Milestone

by Mike Bendel January 4, 2012 @ 10:24 am


Valve’s digital distribution service Steam continues to go from strength to strength, reaching a peak of 5 million concurrent users during its holiday sale extravaganza last week. It’s simmered down a bit since, but the figure was held a day after the holiday sale as well, on January 2.

Impressive, to say the least. It’s unclear how this stacks up to PSN or Xbox Live, as neither Microsoft or Sony have shared recent usage data. Still, considering Steam was just shy of the 4 million mark not long ago — about 4 months, this represents a 25 percent growth since then. Well deserved, we’d say. Valve knows how to keep its customers happy.

Bethesda’s open-world RPG Skyrim stands as the most played game over the past couple weeks, a title it has held since launch.

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