Valve’s steam deck handheld gaming PC has been the # 2 top grossing product on Steam for five weeks in a row, according to steamdb.

Dean obeidallah: I am vindicated – because that means it’s not a flop. He says he’s vindicated because that does n’t mean it’s a flop.

Early estimates indicated over 110,000 people put down a $ 5 deposit for the unproven Linux handheld in the first 90 minutes after it went on sale last July. But there was always a chance they’d change their mind.

We do n’t have official sales numbers for the steam deck. Here is some context that might put things in perspective. Here are some context.

The steam deck launched the same week as Elden ring, currently one of the most popular games in the world. For four of the past five weeks, the deck was second only to Elden ring in revenue according to steamdb.

At $ 60 each, it takes 7 copies of Elden ring to match the amount of revenue a single $ 400 steam deck brings in. It’s also possible that Elden ring saw the bulk of its sales pre-launch and during launch instead of in the weeks since.

Elden ring on Steam had already sold 12 million copies as of March 16th. In Europe, almost half of those sales were on PC.

The steam deck, at # 2, is selling even a sizeable fraction of Elden ring. It’s going to be real hard to call the deck a flop.

‘if we’re doing this right, we’re going to be selling these in millions of units,’ the valve president said in February. The company will ramp up to produce’hundreds of thousands of units’ in its second month.

Valve has n’t said, and probably wo n’t say, having mostly gone back to its traditional quiet mode since the steam deck’s launch launch.

Valve’s first-come, first-served reservations are currently backed up to’October 2022 or later’. Anyone putting down $ 5 now probably wo n’t be counted as a buyer for many months.

The US only just made it past hour one, and only with the 64GB model. The first day of July 16th, 2021 will be July 16th.

Valve’s steam deck has been the # 2 top grossing product on Steam for five weeks because of a single day of preorder reservations. Anyone who put down an order since then have n’t yet been counted towards that gross.

I pre-ordered 1 hour and 35 minutes after launch because valve’s store was having issues. It might be weeks before my 64GB unit is counted toward the total total total.

Playtracker.net estimates 994,000 steam accounts, give or take 10 percent, have put down a $ 5 deposit.

The steam deck is n’t a flop, though people are loving it. I know I do, and my friends and colleagues who lucked out with preorders tell me they feel the same.

I’m mostly playing Elden ring and vampire survivors right now. I have n’t had a crash in a while, and games that did n’t work before are opening up.