The PS5 has sold over 80 million units. Even the miserable Xbox Series has over 28 million units sold.
All use custom AMD APU’s. Valve is more than an order of magnitude away from even competing with Sony. And we haven’t even touched on laptops yet.
But also compared to desktops… I can’t find how much AMD in particular did, but I can see that 251 million desktop GPU’s were sold in 2024. I don’t know how many Deck’s were sold in 2024 by comparison, but given that the total fron the 2021 launch to early 2025 is estimated at 4 million units on the high side, it’s not even blip on the radar. It’s not a statistically significant amount. The Deck is absolutely miniscule in comparison.
That’s all true but doesn’t in any way contradict my point. AMD were happy to work with Valve on the APU for the deck and now the concept is proven, they’ll be even more happy to do it again.
Once you buy a few million of things, the problems of retail customers don’t tend to apply.
The Steam Deck, in all its variants, has sold under 4 million units as of February .
The PS5 has sold over 80 million units. Even the miserable Xbox Series has over 28 million units sold.
All use custom AMD APU’s. Valve is more than an order of magnitude away from even competing with Sony. And we haven’t even touched on laptops yet.
But also compared to desktops… I can’t find how much AMD in particular did, but I can see that 251 million desktop GPU’s were sold in 2024. I don’t know how many Deck’s were sold in 2024 by comparison, but given that the total fron the 2021 launch to early 2025 is estimated at 4 million units on the high side, it’s not even blip on the radar. It’s not a statistically significant amount. The Deck is absolutely miniscule in comparison.
That’s all true but doesn’t in any way contradict my point. AMD were happy to work with Valve on the APU for the deck and now the concept is proven, they’ll be even more happy to do it again.