Steam Deck Has Sold 'Multiple Millions' of Units - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 November 2023 / 6,862 Views
Valve designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais speaking with The Verge revealed the Steam Deck handheld ha sold "multiple millions" of units.
It was reported in October 2022 the Steam Deck had surpassed one million units shipped.
Valve announced last week the Steam Deck OLED, which will launch on November 16 for $549 for the 512 GB model and $649 for the 1TB model.
Yang last week also revealed the team will work on a Steam Deck 2 that will feature a "next-generation" power upgrade. It is at least two or three years away from release.
"A lot of folks at the company are excited about this product," said Yang at the time. "We are very invested in the Steam Deck."
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thats a Microsoft number
Considering I've never seen a single commercial about it anywhere or seen a single unit on any shelf, I figure this is a pretty good number...
Is that multiple more than one or two? :D
I was figuring 5 million would be the absolute most Steam Deck would sell during its lifetime. Pretty awesome to see how dedicated Valve is to the device. I probably use it half the time now when I don't feel like sitting at my desk to game lol. Like 3/4 of my Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough alone was on the Deck!
"Multiple millions" is a very vague number, though it's probably all that these two are allowed to say under whatever contracts they have with Valve. 2M counts as "multiple millions." I'm guessing it's not a terribly huge record-setting number, or Gabe Newell himself would be crowing about it. Analysts have it pegged at around 3M.
I would guess that if they are being honest 2M would be couple and 3M would be minimum for multiple and if it was already above 5M they would have put as some type of milestone achievement.
This millennium, outside the “Big 3”, the ‘best-selling’ consoles were originally 2003’s N-Gage (which sold 3mil in 4 years) and 2013’s Ouya (which sold 0.2mil in 2 years), and a 2015 line of several manufacturers’ Steam Machines (altogether <0.5mil in 3 years)
The Steam Deck selling over 2mil in under 2 years might not be Valve’s watershed moment as a hardware manufacturer, but it's already on a pace that essentially guarantees that it’ll become the highest-selling gaming device from outside the Big 3 since Sega’s departure in 2001. And with a mid gen refresh having launched, and Valve confirming that they’re working on a 2nd-generation Steam Deck that will release “when there’s a generational leap in performance”, this is the most enthusiasm I’ve felt for a gaming device since the 3DS back in 2011. Picked up my Steam Deck in August 2023, and as I finally started chewing through my library I’d been building since January 2013, playing it so much also got me to start playing on my gaming PC again thanks to cloud sync allowing me to hop between the two easily.
Probably fine for what it is. But... remember people saying this was going to kill the Switch? Lol.
More like close to 3 million!
For me that is like 3 to at most 5M with some luck.
So, no more than 9 million, a number which they will never reach.
I'm guessing that's 2 million?
Analyst estimates have it at around 3 million.
