Steam Survey January 2022: Windows 11 gains traction, Intel loses coveted 69% CPU market share

It’s that time of the month again: Steam Survey time.

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What you need to know

It’s that special time again when we all gather around to see what hardware and software are taking the Steam userbase by storm. This time around, we haveJanuary 2022’s results, and with them, the news thatWindows 11is growing quite fat indeed, cannibalistically engorging itself on the market share of its older Windows brethren, who grow slimmer as the fat is separated from their withering bodies.

That is to say, Windows 11 had 10.15% market share in December 2021 and is, as of January 2022, up to 13.56%, having seen a 3.41% bump.

In other news, Intel lost its very, very nice 69.27% standing in CPU share, dipping down to 68.93% while AMD took home 31.07%. Meanwhile, NVIDIA, maker of some of thebest graphics cards, retained 75.4% GPU control, representing a slight fall from December’s 76.83% figure.

In the VR sector, Windows Mixed Reality (bless its heart) comprised 4.99% of the Steam population’s headset hardware pool, a drop from December’s 5.69%. Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 remains king with a whopping 46.02%. Never forget that this is one of the battlesMetais seriously keen on winning in order toestablish its metaverse, so don’t be surprised if the Quest line continues to snuff the life out of WMR in these monthly stats.

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Robert Carnevale is the News Editor for Windows Central. He’s a big fan of Kinect (it lives on in his heart), Sonic the Hedgehog, and the legendary intersection of those two titans, Sonic Free Riders. He is the author ofCold War 2395. Have a useful tip? Send it to robert.carnevale@futurenet.com.