Valve Software has tallied 7 million users for its new Steam program Venture Beat reported Monday.
"The main goal of Steam has always been to increase the quality of the user's experience by reducing the distance between content creators and their audience," Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve told Venture Beat said in Oct. "As the platform grows, our job is to adapt to the changing needs of both the development and user communities. In the coming year, we plan to make perhaps our most significant collaborations with both communities through the Steam Dev Days and the Steam Machines beta."
The program which provides games to 65 million users, had already surpassed the 7 million mark with its customers with 7.19 million new ones Monday morning. This means one in every ten Steam members were utilizing the program Venture Beat reported.
Numbers are also up from last year's 6 million users, which mostly came from its fall sale. This is an increase of 17 percent of involvement with a product that was already well-known.
Game enthusiasts, and other consumers can buy games from the company's 3,000 titles for download to their personal computer. This concept is different from Sony's PlayStation products, and Microsoft's Xbox items.
Valve unveiled its own gaming system for people's personal computer in September, dubbed the Steam Machine. Three hundred are expected to be sent to users at no cost for evaluation. A variety of businesses will then unveil a variety of set-top boxes Venture Beat reported.
The device is compatible with Valve's Linux SteamOS operating system, and is considered the company's initial big push to separate from Windows, the main system for playing computer games, on operating systems.
Valve is holding its first inaugural Steam Dev Days conference in January in Seattle for developers, company engineers, and investors.
