Steam deck and “laptop consoles” would have sold 6 million copies

Launched on February 15, 2022, the Valve Steam Deck remains One of the leading machines in his field. A few days ago, the manufacturer announced that Several million consoles have been sold since its launch three years ago. On the other hand, valve did not go into details. Leaving a lot of doubts around the success, or not, of the machine.

After the Steam Deck, several other machines followed the trend like the Asus Rog Ally, the Lenovo Legion Go or the MSI Claw. According to a study carried out by IDC and the media The Verge, since the release of Steam Deck in February 2022, the different versions of these consoles and laptops would have passed to 6 million copies.

6 million units sold, a real success for portable machines?

According to the latest report from The Verge, in partnership with IDC, consoles and « PC portables » As the steam deck would have passed more than 6 million copies Since 2022. Or, on average, 2 million consoles per year. A rather mixed assessment, which seems to be to the advantage of Steam Deck, since Valve confirmed that it has sold “Several million” of machines in November 2023.

However, these figures seem to satisfy Valve, Lenovo, Asus or MSI, enough to continue to develop these ranges of consoles and get out of new models. According to IDC, we can estimate that the steam deck is close to 4 or 5 million machines soldwhich would make it the most popular portable console/pc on the market.

Finally, is it really a success for these machines? Compared to other portable consoles on the market and in the past? Difficult to compare This success with the 150 million switch Since March 2017 which remains outside category. According to estimates, Sony has sold, in just one year, nearly 2 million Portal PlayStation For his PS5. Almost a third of all portable machines since 2022, while the PS Portal (which is much cheaper) is only an accessory.

Concerning Other portable consoles In the history of video games, here is the record:

1. Nintendo DS (2004), 154 million consoles sold
2. Nintendo Switch (2017), 150 million consoles sold
3. Nintendo Gameboy / Game Boy Color (1898), 118 million consoles sold
4. Nintendo Gameboy Advance (2001), 81 million consoles sold
5. PlayStation Portable (2005), 80 million consoles sold
6. Nintendo 3DS (2011), 75 million consoles sold
7. PlayStation Vita (2011), 14 million consoles sold
8. Game Gear (1990), 11 million consoles sold
9. Atari Lynx (1989), 6 million consoles sold
10. N-GAG (2003), 3 million consoles sold

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