Valve has released its latest Steam Hardware and Software Survey, which revealed a 20.88 percent increase in Simplified Chinese-speaking users in February 2025, making up half of the entire userbase.
As Automaton noted, February usually brings an increase of Chinese users to Steam as it coincides with Chinese New Year holidays. However, this year’s increase was significantly higher than usual - 2024 saw an equivalent increase of 7.26 percent.
Same. Also seeing how everything windows or chromium wants the minimum of 8GBs now, doubling that becomes the point of comfort now, and quadrupling it seems like a reasonable go-to if you want guaranteed years of work without upgrades. With how SSDs became mandatory, it won’t take long devs would assume 16 is the new 8, especially if these stats kinda approve that pov.