Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later

Back in February we hit the three year mark of Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS Linux, and as we approach the release of the public SteamOS 3 Beta for more devices, here's an updated look at the sales charts.

I've been tracking this for a while now, based on Valve's public Global Weekly Top Sellers list. I last showed an updated list of this back in January, when it initially seemed like the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement had put a dent in sales, which turned out to be an error.

Unfortunately, Valve don't like to give out sales numbers, so we have to rely on their own lists which are for revenue, not units sold. So keep in mind that one Steam Deck is equal to multiple of the most expensive games. However, it does still mean they're selling quite a lot regularly when you think about how many hundreds of thousands of copies get sold of the top games each week.

Anyway, here's the latest on how it's doing in the Global Weekly Top Sellers chart:

When you look at the last year, the Steam Deck position averages about #4, which is good news for the long-term health of the platform. We are gradually seeing more bigger games releasing that the Steam Deck simply cannot handle, so it will be interesting to see how the sales change over the next 1-2 years. Although, when you look at the most played games for April 2025, it shows that there's an interesting mixture of games new and old in there.

In Valve's own year end review of 2024, they noted that Steam Deck had 330 million hours playtime, which was a 64% increase compared with 2023. I do wonder how 2025 will look when compared! I should also note that The Verge commissioned market research firm IDC back in February, who estimated nearly 6 million handhelds (multiple vendors) had been sold since 2022 with the Steam Deck number around 4 million.

Source: Valve