Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61%

Like Statcounter, there are other analytics services also reporting a decline in Windows 11’s market share. According to the latest results of its monthly Hardware and Software Survey, Valve states that even among Steam users, there has been a slight decrease in the number of customers using Windows 11.

Every month, Valve selects a certain number of Steam users at random and invites them to take part in an anonymous survey. The collected data represents an average across the platform and assists developers in determining where to focus their efforts and resources to reach the largest number of customers.

According to Valve, the market share of Windows 11 decreased from 41.96% to 41.61% in March 2024. In contrast, Windows 10 saw an increase in its market share, gaining what Windows 11 had lost, with its percentage rising from 54.19% to 54.40%. The unsupported versions of Windows, including 64-bit Windows 7 and 64-bit Windows 8.1, continue their inevitable decline, with market shares of 0.49% (-0.08 points) and 0.08% (-0.01 points) respectively.

64-bit Windows 10 – 54.40% (+0.21 points)
Windows 11 – 41.61% (-0.35 points)
64-bit Windows 7 – 0.49% (-0.08 points)
64-bit Windows 8.1 – 0.08% (-0.01 points)

Overall, the majority of Steam users (96.67%) still choose to play games on Windows PCs, although there has been a slight decrease of 0.24%. On the other hand, the number of MacOS users has increased by 0.06% to 1.38%, while Linux users have also seen a slight increase of 0.18% to 1.94%.

In March 2024, the events on the hardware side were as follows.

Steam Hardware Survey – March 2024
Processors	Intel 68.74% (+0.83)	AMD 31.22% (-0.83)	Microsoft 0.04%
CPU Cores	6 cores 34.12% (+0.69)	4 cores 19.93% (-0.56)	8 cores 19.82% (-0.33)
Memory	16GB 47.7% (-1.34)	32GB 29.29% (+2.10)	8GB 11.74% (-0.45)
GPU Models	Nvidia RTX 3060 6.71% (+0.71)	Nvidia RTX 2060 3.98% (-0.02)	Nvidia GTX 1650 3.95% (-0.16)
Video Memory	8GB 35.17% (+1.14)	12GB 18.32% (+1.2)	6GB 14.76% (-0.72)
Display Resolution	1920 x 1080 58.45% (-0.37)	2560 x 1440 19.82% (+0.87)	1366 x 768 3.46% (-0.1)