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Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A particularly fun bit:

So then, how about Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said when it hits "tens of millions of users" that it "would actually make sense to support it". We must be pretty close by now right? Why ignore a platform that's sold multiple millions, and is clearly just continuing to fly off the shelves?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He doesn't actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.

Going on the stats in the article:

assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far

that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold

The article does go on to say:

Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold "multiple millions".

So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn't know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The top seller chart only covers around 2 weeks of time if I recall right, and the Steam Deck has been near the top of it for years now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.

It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think Wukong is $60 ($70 for Deluxe). At least the was the PS5 price.