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.

1. 64-bit Windows 10 – 54.40% (+0.21 points)
2. Windows 11 – 41.61% (-0.35 points)
3. 64-bit Windows 7 – 0.49% (-0.08 points)
4. 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.

You can obtain further details from the designated website for the Steam Hardware and Software Survey, which is the official source.