New steam survey statistics?

[Evil Jay]

I too would be interested in seeing the numbers, but I'm not sure you're
going to see the correlation you expect, Scott.

While Linux adoption may have grown, Valve has probably been selling
just as many, if not more games to customers who already owned Windows
but had never used Steam. 

I suppose it could say something about the number of Linux users that
have a proclivity for gaming - which might be great to tell company X: 
"Hey, port your game to Linux - we know for sure that there are at least
Y number of gamers out there and you'll have very little competition for
their business if you hurry!".

-J



Scott Ritchie wrote:
> When we last heard from Valve a year ago, Wine had about a .4% share of
> the steam user base.  It would be interesting to see how this has
> changed since then - in that time, we've both released Wine 1.0 and
> likely seen Linux adoption increase a great deal.  Linux had doubled its
> desktop marketshare the year preceding the last survey, I wouldn't be
> surprised to see Wine usage at around 1% on steam now.
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> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
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