Valve’s recent Steam hardware survey shows that those who can afford it are slowly but steadily ditching 1080p displays in favor of 1440p and 4K resolutions.
hardware survey shows that while 1080p games still dominate, 2.33% of gamers on Steam have now switched to visual upscaling. Of course, not everyone can pick up the 4090 and run the latest games at their highest resolution, but considering Steam has over 100 million users, that 2.33% equates to roughly 2 million people deciding to see it better on a monitor.
With 62% of gamers still using 1080p, that lead is unlikely to disappear anytime soon unless the GPU market changes significantly soon. However, as more and more gamers move to the upper limit of the resolution, perhaps over time we could see 1080p gaming land in the same boat as 720p, which is now mostly used on handheld devices.
