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Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] Postcard64 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing anyone comment on the last paragraph of the article, so I'll paste it here.

With the SteamOS / Steam Deck monthly numbers not showing any magnificent gains, I am curious over this 0.5% increase for Linux gaming overall and whether it's genuine.

The likely explanation is when looking at the demographics and seeing Steam by Chinese users dropping 3.4% while the English usage picked up by 3.4%. Chinese gamers and reporting differences there have previously vastly swayed Steam statistics in prior months.

So this might just be a maths artifact.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there numbers on Steam Deck sales?

[–] just_another_person 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All they said for sure was they sold out their first two production runs which were based on pre-order numbers, and that was over 1mil at the time they said that. Found this quote though:

"According to Omdia, the Steam Deck sold an estimated 1.62 million units in 2022, and is on track to sell about 1.85 million units throughout 2023. This would push total Steam Deck unit sales to 3.47 million by the end of 2023."

So if true, they blew through those first units super fast, and then ramped production again. I'm sure they sold a ton last month when t was 20% off for Summer Sale as well.