{"id":817570,"date":"2026-07-22T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:48:13","slug":"the-steam-deck-has-seen-a-sharp-drop-in-popularity-following-a-price-rise-%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%b6%d0%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817570\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steam Deck has seen a sharp drop in popularity following a price rise \u2022 \u041c\u0435\u0436\u0430"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\n  Following its return to sale at the end of May, Valve&#8217;s portable gaming PC dropped from fifth to 14th place in Steam&#8217;s weekly revenue rankings. Ars Technica <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2026\/07\/steam-deck-sales-are-losing-steam-since-mays-price-hike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> this, citing figures from Boiling Steam.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\n  According to the publication&#8217;s estimates, Valve sold approximately 11,000\u201318,000 Steam Decks per week throughout 2025. Currently, this figure may stand at just 1,400\u20133,000 devices, representing a drop of approximately 80 per cent.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\n  Valve does not disclose official sales figures for the Steam Deck. Boiling Steam arrived at its estimate based on the device&#8217;s position in Steam&#8217;s revenue rankings, its average price, and the estimated revenue of comparable games in the table. Consequently, the 80 per cent figure has a wide margin of error.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\n  In May,<a href=\"https:\/\/mezha.ua\/en\/news\/steam-deck-oled-price-311700\/\" target=\"_blank\" pubtag=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0the Steam Deck OLED saw a price increase of $240\u2013$300<\/a>. In the US, the 512 GB model now costs $789 instead of $549, whilst the 1 TB version costs $949 instead of $649. At this price, the device competes with the more powerful ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and MSI Claw models. The Steam Deck is not officially sold in Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a reminder, after the Steam Deck returned to the Valve store at the end of May,<a href=\"https:\/\/mezha.ua\/en\/news\/steam-deck-sold-out-again-311763\/\" target=\"_blank\" pubtag=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0the new batch sold out in less than a day<\/a>. The company had also warned of supply disruptions due to a memory shortage, so the drop in the rankings may be explained not only by the price but also by the device&#8217;s availability.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mezha.ua\/en\/news\/prodazhi-steam-machine-startuvali-dosit-vdalo-313387\/\" target=\"_blank\" pubtag=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read also: Sales of the new Steam Machine have got off to a fairly good start, despite the high price \u2013 study<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Share:<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmezha.ua%2Fen%2Fnews%2Fsteam-deck-sales-falls-313486%2F\" class=\"button\" onclick=\"openPopup(this.href); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"\" class=\"button\" onclick=\"tw_share('https:\/\/mezha.ua\/en\/news\/steam-deck-sales-falls-313486\/', 'Analysts: following the price rise, Steam Deck sales could have fallen by 80 per cent'); return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"\" class=\"button\" onclick=\"tg_share('https:\/\/mezha.ua\/en\/news\/steam-deck-sales-falls-313486\/', 'Analysts: following the price rise, Steam Deck sales could have fallen by 80 per cent'); return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"\" class=\"copy_button\" onclick=\"return false;\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u041f\u043e\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0441\u043a\u043e\u043f\u0456\u0439\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following its return to sale at the end of May, Valve&#8217;s portable gaming PC dropped from fifth to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-817570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}