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\n Credit:\u00a0Valve<\/p>\n
Summary<\/p>\n
1) Valve is selling an estimated 12\u201315K Steam Machines per week despite steep launch price.<\/p>\n
2) It’s a niche, hobbyist device\u2014unlikely to topple consoles like Nintendo or PlayStation.<\/p>\n
3) SteamOS may outlast the hardware; vendors already sell PCs preloaded with it.<\/p>\n
When the Steam Machine’s price was announced, the gaming scene had a collective groan as everyone’s fears that it’d breach the four-figure mark came true. However, that seemingly didn’t stop people buying one, as Boiling Steam has estimated that around 12,000 to 15,000 units are selling per week.<\/p>\n
Valve is selling between 12,000 and 15,000 Steam Machines a week, claims Boiling Steam<\/p>\n
A good showing, if it’s accurate<\/p>\n
\n Credit:\u00a0Valve<\/p>\n
Boiling Steam posted an article<\/a> estimating how many Steam Machines Valve has sold. Valve has never officially confirmed how many units it’s shifted, but Boiling Steam used some measurable metrics to calculate a rough estimate. It did this by looking at where the Steam Machine sat at the Top Sellers spot and calculated a bounding box based on how the games above and below it were performing.<\/p>\n After doing some napkin math, Boiling Steam deduced that Valve is selling between 12,000 and 15,000 Steam Machines a week. Boiling Steam notes that the Steam Machine won’t be taking down the big names like Nintendo or PlayStation, but as a hobbyist device, it seems to be fitting the bill very well:<\/p>\n Right now, it\u2019s not shaping to be a market failure, but rather a niche device. Realistically speaking, the demand is probably going to slow down naturally – it would not be surprising to see 20% or 30% less volume shipped per week after the initial launch period.<\/p>\n Fortunately, even if the Steam Machine doesn’t prove to be a huge hit, it shouldn’t be all bad news. The software that keeps the console running, SteamOS, has a very good chance of outlasting the hardware<\/a> to become a revolutionary gaming PC operating system. In fact, people are already selling PCs pre-loaded with SteamOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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