The Steam Deck has been fairly a hit for Valve- however how huge precisely? Valve hasn’t precisely launched recent gross sales figures for the gadget at a daily clip, although fortunately, now we have a little bit of a window into how nicely it has performed so far.
Reported by The Verge, market analysis analyst agency IDC estimates that the Steam Deck has offered over 3.7 million items worldwide as of the top of 2024 (doubtlessly implying that it might have crossed the 4 million mark by this level).
As per business analyst Lewis Ward, the Steam Deck account for greater than 50 p.c of all handheld gaming PC {hardware} gross sales in 2023, and 48 p.c in 2024. Up to now, over 6 million whole items of handheld gaming PCs have been offered, as per IDC estimates.
The Steam Deck launched in February 2022, and by October that yr, Valve introduced that it had offered over one million items. Over a yr later, the corporate said that the gadget had offered “a number of million” items.
Valve has said previously that it intends to work on future iterations of the Steam Deck. That mentioned, the corporate additionally says it gained’t launch a Steam Deck 2 until it’s a “generational leap”, which implies we is likely to be ready some time.
