Partially due to Counter-Strike 2
The Steam Deck portable gaming console was released more than a year and a half ago and has been in the top ten Steam products by revenue all this time. And now the console has dropped out of the leaderboard for the first time.
The Steam Deck portable gaming console fell out of the top ten best-selling products
Steam Deck dropped to 11th place with the release of Counter-Strike 2. More precisely, it initially dropped straight to 15th place but has already risen to 11th.
Let us remember that we are talking about a rating that does not reflect popularity, but the amount of money that Valve has earned from a particular product, and this is not necessarily a game. Since Steam Deck sold very well, and was many times more expensive than any game, it was in the top ten for a long time. Counter-Strike 2 itself is free to play but makes Valve a lot of money thanks to microtransactions and the internal store.
