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.
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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.