The Steam Deck has been fairly successful for Valve- however how large precisely? Valve hasn’t precisely launched contemporary gross sales figures for the machine at a daily clip, although fortunately, we’ve a little bit of a window into how properly it has finished to date.
Reported by The Verge, market analysis analyst agency IDC estimates that the Steam Deck has offered over 3.7 million models worldwide as of the tip of 2024 (doubtlessly implying that it could have crossed the 4 million mark by this level).
As per trade 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. To this point, over 6 million complete models 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 1,000,000 models. Over a yr later, the corporate said that the machine had offered “a number of million” models.
Valve has said previously that it intends to work on future iterations of the Steam Deck. That stated, the corporate additionally says it received’t launch a Steam Deck 2 until it’s a “generational leap”, which suggests we could be ready some time.
