Sales of Valve's Steam Deck crater after recent price hike

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Valve的Steam Deck掌机在5月份涨价后，销量出现了断崖式下跌。这款自2022年上市以来长期霸占销量榜首的产品，如今排名已跌至第12位，甚至一度掉到第14名，而在去年它几乎从未跌出过前五。涨价前Valve就警告过可能出现“间歇性短缺”，导致玩家在几个月里很难买到，直到5月彻底断货后重新上架，但价格却上调了。对普通玩家来说，这意味着想买一台性价比高的便携游戏电脑成本更高了，不少人可能会转向其他竞品或者等着降价促销。而Valve这次销量暴跌，也提醒着其他硬件厂商：在竞争激烈的掌机市场，涨价这种操作真的会吓跑消费者。

Since its 2022 launch, the Steam Deck has consistently been at or near the top of the company's "top selling products by revenue" charts, with brief dips outside of the top 10 treated as newsworthy events. But sales of the popular handheld gaming PC have apparently been on a steep decline since the system relaunched at a higher price in May. Linux-focused gaming site Boiling Steam breaks down the historical data, showing how the Deck's chart position has fallen from fifth place immediately after orders resumed in late May down to 14th place for two weeks in early July (the hardware sits at 12th place in the current edition of those charts). That's in sharp contrast to 2025, when the Steam Deck never dropped below seventh place on the bestseller charts and was only rarely outside the Top 5. Then Valve warned of "intermittent shortages" for the Steam Deck starting in February, leading to weeks of lower chart positions before the Deck became completely unavailable until May.Read full article Comments