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It looks surprisingly low initially but I don't think it actually is. 10 million people, that is 1 in 800 of the world population. You sleep eight hours, that m
by danbruc 4y ago
It looks surprisingly low initially but I don't think it actually is. 10 million people, that is 1 in 800 of the world population. You sleep eight hours, that makes it 1 in 533 of all people awake. Then we have to divide out the part of the world population lacking the means to use Steam, Internet usage alone seems to be about 5 out of 8 according to the numbers a quick search turned up. This brings us down to 1 in 333 at most, their might however be a correlation between Internet users and being awake. Then we have console gaming vs PC gaming even though streaming and handhelds might make this a bit fuzzy. An older number I found says 1 in 3 are playing on a PC, dropping us to 1 in 111. And people of course do many other things besides playing games including not playing games at all, but it gets progressively harder for me to come up with realistic numbers and more and more correlations will make just multiplying fractions more and more wrong, so I will leave it a that.
- Arrath 4y agoInteresting break down of the numbers, thanks!