Tag Archives: Hardware Survey

Given that the vast majority of PC gamers use Steam, Valve's Steam Hardware Survey usually offers a decent look at PC hardware trends and adoption. The February 2023 Steam Hardware Survey results have now been shared and it looks like new-gen GPUs from Nvidia are finally starting to be more widely used, although AMD's RX 7900 series has yet to appear on the list. 

The Quest 2 VR headset is one of the best around, offering solid specifications and a wireless VR experience at a sensible price. Over the course of November and December, Meta ramped up on promotions for the Quest 2 and enjoyed a boost in sales. Now, we are seeing this …

The Oculus Rift has overtaken the HTC VIVE in Steam usage for the first time. We saw the writing on the wall last month, when the December Steam hardware survey results came out, showing the Rift with a better growth percentage. Now two months later, the Vive has officially been …

Over the course of 2017, Facebook cut the price of the Oculus Rift down again and again, closing the year out with a £350 holiday sale for the HMD and Touch controllers. Back in November, we learned that these sales brought Rift and Vive usage up to very similar levels …

Back in September, following on from the Oculus Rift's summer sale price cut, we noticed that the headset had received a big boost in users on Steam thanks to the monthly Steam Hardware Survey. Now, the Rift price cut has been made permanent, and the headset's share of the Steam …

Over the course of the Summer, Oculus has been making a big push to get the Oculus Rift and Touch controllers in the hands of more consumers. Not only did many games go on sale but the Rift+Touch bundle was cut down to just £399 and it appears to have …