This is the Steam Deck, Valve's handheld PC gaming machine:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck
It has allegedly sold over 1,000,000 units, and is still processing back orders, according to KDE's David Edmundson at the Akademy 2022 conference:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/kde-steam-deck-akademy-2022/
I will accept any source at least as credible as this for resolution.
I will post a list of predefined ranges and will not accept any user submitted ranges. Whichever choice the correct answer from a credible source appears in by the closing date, is the market resolving choice.
If the source says that e.g. "X million units have been sold," that will be interpreted as X,000,000 + 1 units, so it will not resolve two markets by falling exactly on edge.
If the source says, "about X million units" have been sold that will also be interpreted as X,000,000 + 1.
But if they say "almost" or "less" than, it will be interpreted as X,000,000 - 1 units.
If they say "more than", that will be interpreted as X,000,000 + 1 units.
Oct 3, 12:31pm:
1,000
3.00@LarsDoucet
https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/11/10/steam-deck-sales-multiple-millions-valve-announces
"As Valve designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais told The Verge, sales of Steam Deck have already reached “multiple millions.” However, they didn’t disclose the exact figures.
The last time we had some sort of offical data was in October 2022, when David Edmundson from KDE, an open source community that created the desktop user interface used in SteamOS, revealed that Valve had shipped over 1 million units of its device.
Given the new information from Valve, it is safe to say that Steam Deck has sold a couple more million units since then.
This is also in line with guesstimates made by GameDiscoverCo’s Simon Carless, who recently said there are likely “between 3 and 4 million Steam Deck owners ‘in the wild’ right now.” According to a report from research firm Omdia, the handheld PC “will surpass 3 million units sold during 2023.” "
Per comment below omedia suggested 3.47m
There is also
Concurrent Steam Users
#Name All-Time Peak
1.Counter-Strike 2 1,818,773
2.Dota 2 1,295,114
3.PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 3,257,248
I think everything is pointing towards over 3m. But are we going to get better info to resolve this or just go with clear impression from these multiple reports?
@ChristopherRandles I have friends at valve I could ask for an official answer, or we could resolve on most likely info once I double check the original criteria