Comment on Deck: Does anyone have an idea or way of estimating how many Steam Deck are in use? (Speculation)
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 20 hours agoOh wait, since when do they have the Steam Deck named in the stats properly? This is quiet nice.
As for the information about how many Steam users are active each month, there was an official statement by Valve. You can find it here: steamcommunity.com/groups/…/3133946090937137591 . Given that the daily active users peak in Steam is much higher now, we can assume that the monthly active users is higher too. There are estimated to the current number of 200 million at the moment: pcguide.com/…/new-report-suggests-steam-now-has-o… Who knows.
So 0.45% of 200 million estimated would be 900,000. If this was true, it would be much less. It could also that Steam Deck users don’t get the survey as often or they decide not to send. The Steam hardware survey itself is an estimation based on the “few” surveys they got. At last I would expect that sales figures are higher than monthly active users number. The hardware is getting older and older, some may have moved to an alternative handheld or even to a PC. Or they have a newer OLED version alongside the LCD now.
All things considered, under 1 million users is less than I expected.
ericwdhs@discuss.online 19 hours ago
See my other comment here. I’m in the “active Deck user, but not as main PC crowd.”