PC Gaming

To put this in perspective:

Valve has revealed that Steam Deck players accumulated 330 million hours of gameplay during 2024, representing a remarkable 64% increase compared to the previous year.

That's the equivalent of every Switch owner playing two hours in the entire year. Nintendo doesn't share their usage numbers in aggregate, but they do provide a "year in review" thing per user and most of the ones I see online are in the three digit range. Even assuming a bunch of people aren't using these at all, we're looking one to two orders of magnitude larger than the Steam Deck, which checks out with what we know about the total numbers sold for each device.

Which is to say, the Deck is probably as popular as, say, a Sega Game Gear or a Sega Saturn but nowhere near any of the modern consoles yet.

Not to undercut it, but the steam deck shows triple the actual game time for some of my games, as it probably counted the time the device was asleep with a game running, due to some glitch.

I don't like how that article doesn't have a source, but I found this article with a source from Valve.

I'm looking forward to the Legion Go S because at least that's a lot more likely to be sold officially in my country than the Steam Deck will. Also I think that more choice for officially supported Steam OS devices is on a whole good for consumers.

Despite the expectations surrounding the Steam Deck 2,

What expectations? Valve has flat out said its not happening yet because the hardware isn't there yet.

I never play my steamdeck hand held. But boy do I rip through my backlog with it hooked up to the TV.

If this is tracked just by game playtime, then this is underselling it too. Sunshine/Moonlight alone would probably add a substantial amount of time to this count.

This can’t be true, because I’m not using steam anymore/s