Sony and Microsoft don’t even know Valve exists. The Steam Deck sold in its lifetime less than each console in a few weeks after launch.
Tango@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
Doesn’t mention how Switches and Steam Decks are doing, but I would venture to guess that Valve is eating Sony and Microsoft’s lunch.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The new Xbox coming out next year is going to have direct Steam support. And that’s no accident.
Xbox series X|S sold a total of just under 35 million. Those are actually estimate numbers, as Microslop stopped reporting their (embarrassing) numbers years ago.
Steam has an average of 38.5 million concurrent users, with a peak of 43.5 million users.
Steam is literally bigger than Microslop’s Xbox division, and infinitely more profitable. Sony’s PS5 has sold something like 91 million units.
The Steam Deck isn’t the relevant metric here. Every single computer with Steam installed is.
sompreno@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
They were clearly referring to hardware sales because that’s what this post is about. As far as software sales go steam obviously does better since the market of people of with a pc is greater than consoles. Same reason why mobile is by far the largest gaming market.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Given that RAM prices are up on everything, probably not.
People aren’t avoiding new consoles because they object to Sony’s business practices. They’re avoiding them because they’ve been prices outside of the “toy” category.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Gabecube is projected to sell several hundreds thousand copies. PlayStation 5 is close to 100 million units sold.
Tango@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
“Sold” as in the past tense of “sell”.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It is estimated that Playstation sold 13 million consoles in 2026.
Tango@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
And yet Valve’s revenue was twice that of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s. Steam can run on a generic PC; Steam Deck and GabeCube are merely gravy. Storefronts are where the money’s made. Hell, haven’t PS5s been selling at a loss until recently?
CriticalThought@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I will be curious how PS5 does moving forward and how well any PS6 does. Seems like Sony is in the FA stage and might be transitioning to FO.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
PS5 pro prices are through the roof so it will likely keep sales muted plus everyone is ready for the new console by now. With prices the way they are the next console generation could be three years away. That is an extremely long cycle and will further hurt their sales.