From GameWatcher: "English is no longer the most used language on Steam, according to the platform's December hardware and software survey, which places Simplified Chinese on the top spot.
Simplified Chinese saw a 14.43% jump in users in the month of December, being preferred by 37.87% of Steam's population, according to the latest hardware and software survey. English takes the second place with 30.43%."
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Replies(3)Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.
If they don't maintain some kind of console presence, I think they will lose gamepass subscribers and just become a 3rd party publisher who eventually sells everything off
Xbox games are releasing on all platforms. Who needs this hardware? PS or PC is all you need
Even if they could get it down to $800 for a box that can run with comparable performance to a PS6 (at, say $200 cheaper) the population of people willing to buy such a thing would be so limited.
It would be the worst of both worlds.
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That’s not too surprising. What I find surprising is that Russian is 3rd. Wow. It beat Spanish?
I guess Russians love Steam.
When Steam started digital sales in China a year or two ago, the Chinese flooded onto the scene fast. If you play Ghost Recon: Wildlands, it seems like everyone on there is Chinese. Also, if you go into the discussion pages for any of the games, you see almost as many Russian threads as you do English ones now.
Next you are going to tell me Chamicuro came in last.