Reflecting back on a year of gaming, Steam’s final hardware and software survey of 2025 indicates a couple of interesting trends as 2026 gets underway.
Reflecting back on a year of gaming, Steam’s final hardware and software survey of 2025 indicates a couple of interesting trends as 2026 gets underway. One of this is AMD’s ability to continue chipping away at Intel’s lead, and on the software side, Windows 11 is adding even more distance between itself and Windows 10, at least among Steam users.It’s important to note that Steam’s data is not indicative of the market as a whole. The monthly surveys also don’t take into consideration the entire gaming community, or even Steam’s full userbase. However, the surveys do provide one of the best snapshots of trends in the gaming sector, given that Steam is the dominant platform for playing games.So, what can we see in the December 2025 survey results? On the hardware side, AMD ended the year with a 47.
