--- title: Valve's price hike reportedly wipes out 82% of Steam... description: Steam Deck sales have reportedly collapsed by approximately 82% following Valve's price hike, which raised the entry-level model from $549 to $789. According... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valve-s-price-hike-reportedly-wipes-out-82-of-steam-deck-sales-as-it-goes-into-near-total-collapse-vndkio0qd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valve's price hike reportedly wipes out 82% of Steam Deck sales as it goes into "near-total collapse" | daily.dev og:description: Steam Deck sales have reportedly collapsed by approximately 82% following Valve's price hike, which raised the entry-level model from $549 to $789. According... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valve-s-price-hike-reportedly-wipes-out-82-of-steam-deck-sales-as-it-goes-into-near-total-collapse-vndkio0qd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VNdkiO0Qd.png og:image:alt: Valve's price hike reportedly wipes out 82% of Steam Deck sales as it goes into "near-total collapse" og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valve's price hike reportedly wipes out 82% of Steam Deck sales as it goes into "near-total collapse" **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Steam Deck sales have reportedly collapsed by approximately 82% following Valve's price hike, which raised the entry-level model from $549 to $789. According to analysis by Boiling Steam using publicly available data, weekly units sold dropped from 11k–18k to just 1.4k–3k, and weekly gross revenue fell roughly 72% from $6M–$10M to $1.2M–$2.5M. The device's Top Seller chart rank also slipped from #4–5 to #10–15, suggesting the price increase has significantly dampened consumer demand despite higher per-unit revenue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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