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After over 80 weeks the Steam Deck leaves the top 10 global sellers on Steam
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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Looks like we're getting a Steam Deck Chapter 1 instead π€£
...according to rumors anyways.
Hunt Down the Steam Deck
Valve better have Steam Deck 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc. Valve doesn't do 3 well
1.3 ya dun goofed!
What's the current version of SteamOS
We're doomed! Those fools!
Would have stayed there a few more weeks if they had made it available down under.
Would have stayed UP there a few more weeks if they had made it available down under.
FTFY
Their success is well-deserved. I really hope Valve doesn't let the momentum slow down though by working with hardware partners and getting SteamOS onto more devices. That'd make the lack of a Steam Deck 2 in the near-term a lot easier to stomach.
I haven't got one yet, but give me another sale like they just had and I'm straight on it. I'm saving my hard-earned pennies for this!
I pre ordered the 512, mainly because I wanted the screen and at the time the ssd's were expensive.
Now I would definitely get the 64gb model and just upgrade the ssd for a total of much less money. Even then, you can upgrade the screen for just $100 if you wanted to. You can make a 1TB with the better screen for less than the cost of a 512 and then you'd have a spare screen as well.
I do NOT trust myself not to destroy the device trying to do that. I'll just wait for a sale and get the 512.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Going over Valve's own Weekly Top Sellers list from the Steam Deck release up until the week of "Tue, September 26, 2023 - Tue, October 3, 2023", the Steam Deck was always globally in the top 10, where in that week it hit 11th place and the following week "Tue, October 3, 2023 - Tue, October 10, 2023" it hit 15th place.
Keep in mind Valve's top seller list is by revenue, not units sold.
Coming up against games that were repeatedly selling in the multiple hundreds of thousands, and in many cases millions, that's a lot of Linux-powered Steam Decks going out into the hands of gamers.
That's only globally though, when going to different regions, the Steam Deck is still in the top 10 for some, but the opposite is also true, in some regions it's also much lower.
Given that handheld PC gaming is still quite a niche overall, with a lot more competition now from other vendors and with rumours swirling of an upcoming refresh, it's perhaps not surprising to finally see it start to slide down a little.
The Steam Deck only continues to mature and get better over time too, with lots and lots of Proton updates improving game compatibility and SteamOS 3.5 now in Preview, there's still constant excitement for the Steam Deck.
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Wasn't this stat pretty skewed since it measures gross revenue and not units sold? So the Deck had a ~10x advantage over everything else?
Measuring by units would be WAY more skewed. The top 10 would all be free items, or if you exclude those $0.01 items. Measuring gross revenue is much harder to game unless you count "actually selling $500 hardware a lot" as cheating somehow.
I mean normalizing by dollar spent makes the list useful. It's not a "most units sold" list. It's a where is everyone spending money list.
I somehow ended up with two, one owned by me, and one owned by my company. I love them both.
I reserved one when they were first announced, but by the time my unit was ready to purchase, it no longer appealed much to me. I spend maybe 5 hours a month gaming since I graduated from uni, so I suspect it would be sitting right next to my Index, which I also have touched in well over a year. Still, I'm glad to see that so many people are enjoying it
Same, the hype wore off eventually. I'd rather buy a Steam Controller 2 than Steam Deck tbh
Love mine
I hope there's a new version in the next few years and it makes games platform agnostic, at least on the desktop.
I just got one and love it.
I just got mine and I love it. It is so much better than I expected. This is the only way I will game now. My desktop gpu is an rx 470 4gb, so I have about the same power in this handheld mode.
I have been able to emulate almost everything so perfectly, 3ds has some slowdown when it compiles shaders and the switch can do the same. But this is the console/computer I have wanted me entire life.
According to Valve? Any way to verify that? Not that I have anything against Valve or the Deck, just curious.