We’re still talking about the Steam Deck, and Valve’s console continues to bring news, at least curious, even if it’s not always official. This is a good example of selling a device that the company has been silent about until now, although the few moves that have been made around its product have left no doubt that at least things are not bad. .

So when we reported at the end of last year that the Steam Deck would have already exceeded a million units sold, neither the source was official, although it was somewhat reliable, nor could it be anything other than a conditional tone. Now the same thing is happening, but with a different source: from the analytics firm Omdia, whose forecasts based on the information they process are the ones in the headline.

That according to the observed sales trend The Steam Deck will end up doubling the sales of the previous one this year, or what is the same thing, putting three million units on the market. A figure that in another context would be totally disastrous, but in which Valve moves, it is not so bad. Steam Deck is, as we argued recently, a mild success, but a success nonetheless.

To put it in context, of the three disciplines In electronic entertainment, the least sold is the Xbox, which according to data from 2021 and 2022 would place between eight and six million units of the Xbox Series per year (for the same period, PS5 sales would be around 12 and 10 million and Nintendo Switch 24 and 15 million, that of course he plays in a different league). These figures are approximate anyway.

In any case, it should be noted that for Valve, Steam Deck is little more than a side project, a product that you can explore a market that basically dominates comfortably, as its core business continues to be selling games – and collecting commissions on each sale – through Steam, the most popular PC game store on the Internet. And Steam Deck is still customized for PC.

In short, if Steam Deck managed to sell its first million units shortly before its first year of life, the pace of sales would accelerate or almost double, according to information released by Omdia. In addition, almost all sales would come from the digital channel, which also makes sense. As well as the tactics Valve uses to provide the console with a large and quality catalog.

Without further ado, we recently caught the news that 75% of the top 100 games on Steam are compatible with Steam Deck, and recently the 20 most played games on Steam Deck, a list that does not miss any major releases of the season, from Hogwarts heritage on Elden Ring, resident evil 4 or Octopath Traveler II. That said, this may not seem like a big deal, but let’s remember that Steam Deck works with Linux.