Valve Reveals How Many Steam Deck Owners Prefer it Over Other Platforms

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Valve has revealed that nearly half of all Steam Deck owners prefer it to other gaming platforms. This bit of consumer insight into the Linux-powered handheld arrived shortly after the console's first anniversary.

The fact that Valve's portable gaming system is doing well has been evident for a while now, not least because it took the company nearly eight months to match consumer demand with sufficient supply to start selling the Steam Deck without reservations. The console itself also dominated the news cycle as one of the most exciting new pieces of gaming hardware for over half a year before it started shipping to early adopters in February 2022.

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In a retrospective interview commemorating the first anniversary of the Steam Deck, Valve UX Designer Lawrence Yang told Rock Paper Shotgun that the console's team is still consistently amazed by the positive response to their handheld. One metric that he found particularly surprising was that nearly half of all Steam Deck owners prefer it to other gaming platforms, with internal research indicating that 42% of that demographic primarily games on the Linux-powered handheld nowadays. While Valve remains secretive about the system's sales, seeing how it's a private company under no obligation to disclose such figures, previous reports claimed the company shipped over a million Steam Decks as of early October, just seven months into its release. Taking that estimate at face value, the percentage revealed by Yang suggests the Steam Deck is now the gaming platform of choice for hundreds of thousands of gamers the world over.

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