The Steam Hardware Survey numbers for March 2018 are out and things are not looking good for Microsoft as its Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) fortunes seem to be dwindling.
As you will recall, the WMR headsets have been facing a slow growth in market share, despite the company implementing deep price cuts on the headsets, which initially promised easy setup and support for lower-spec PCs.
Steam’s latest figures place Facebook’s Oculus Rift at the top, with its market share at 50.62 percent, up from 47.31 percent in February this year. This compared to WMR’s share which fell from 5.36 percent to stand at 5.32 percent, while HTC’s Vive also dropped to 44.06 percent from 45.38 percent.Those statistics, as presented, make it sound like WMR headsets are struggling while Oculus Rift sales are soaring. This is reinforced with this awful graph:
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| Seriously, this is awful. I could understand sorting in descending order by percentage share, or in alphabetical order, but WTF kind of order is this supposed to be? W, H, O, O, O order? Leader 3rd order? |
Would you like to know what the actual numbers are, as presented by the Steam Survey itself?