Windows 11 is still struggling to convince gamers to upgrade
Windows 11 is making steady progress with gamers, but overall the pace of adoption remains pretty sluggish going by the latest stats from Steam.
The Steam hardware survey for June(opens in new tab) has just been released, and what it does show is that the number of gamers using Windows 11 on Valve’s platform has finally crept over the 20% mark, hitting 21.23% to be precise.
That represents a 1.64% increase on the previous month, meaning that over the past three months, Windows 11 market share on Steam has risen by just under 4.4%, so around an average of 1.5% per month.
That’s not great, really, considering that if you turn the clock back to the start of 2022, we were seeing increases to the tune of 2% and even a boost of 3.4% in January.
Windows 10 is still the main OS used by Steam gamers, unsurprisingly, sitting on 71.26%, although it did slip by a chunky 2.63% this month (losing some market share to Windows 7, which will be a reflection of the survey make-up, more than anything – as that varies every month).
Of course, we can point to the likes of 2% or 3% jumps in previous months, but that was back when Windows 11 was new and busy attracting the kind of curious early adopters who are keen to migrate when a platform is still relatively hot off the proverbial press.
Still, we can’t help but feel that the steady progress made in recent times is, as mentioned, on the slow side for Windows 11. Some of that may be a reflection of the tech which the new OS offers gamers not really coming to full fruition yet.
Yes, Windows 11 does sport some new goodies which are live and useful right now, such as Auto HDR – which is great for those with an HDR display – and some minor under-the-hood performance tweaking. But some of the biggest
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