The variety of video games releasing on Steam has been quickly rising for years however, as anticipated, 2017 noticed a brand new document with over 7,600 video games launched via Valve’s digital retailer.
Game discoverability could also be one thing Valve plan to handle in Steam’s upcoming UI update.
The numbers come from Sergey Galyonkin, creator of Steam Spy, the unnofficial tracker of Valve’s retailer. He’s at the moment engaged on a fuller evaluation of 2017’s knowledge however he gave a quick early run down on Twitter:
7,672 video games had been launched on Steam in 2017, 21 video games per day on common.
I’ll write my normal evaluation a bit later this yr, nonetheless coping with the relocation and stuff. https://t.co/4oLZp6tFwo
— Steam Spy (@Steam_Spy) January 10, 2018
Over Christmas I advised some of the things that will be high on Valve’s agenda in 2018 and creating mechanisms to deal with the inflow of latest titles was prime of that listing.
With 1000’s of latest video games showing on Steam every year it’s changing into more durable for gamers to maintain abreast of what’s popping out and for builders to make the discharge of their video games recognized. These new numbers simply spotlight the issue. An common of 21 new video games popping out day by day is so much for anybody to look via, even individuals who make it their job to maintain on prime of all the brand new video games popping out.
Hopefully Valve have one thing up their sleeve.
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