Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming

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Today is the 3rd day of Valve’s Steam Deck, the handheld gaming PC that each but created the marketplace for handheld gaming PCs. It was a messiness to start! But 3 years later, The Verge has information showing however it has dominated the nascent market. While Valve told america successful November 2023 that it had sold “multiple millions” of the AMD-powered handheld, we’ve ne'er had a bully glimpse astatine however large it is oregon however Windows competitors stack up… till now. It seems the Steam Deck, truthful far, has been bigger than each its competitors combined.

Market probe steadfast IDC uses proviso chains to estimation conscionable however galore handheld gaming systems person shipped astir the world, and creates spending forecasts. When I asked IDC marketplace probe expert Lewis Ward if he’d beryllium consenting to isolate SteamOS and Windows gaming handhelds from that data, helium said yes.

So present are the estimated combined shipments of the Steam Deck, and the Windows-based Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and MSI Claw from 2022 done 2024, and an estimation for 2025:

2022202320242025 (Estimate)
1,620,0002,867,0001,485,0001,926,000

Add it up, and that’s conscionable nether 6 cardinal shipments successful 3 years. One mode to presumption that: it’s …

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