Valve’s gaming hardware is expensive, and—thanks to the ongoing RAM apocalypse—it’s getting more costly over time. You, dear reader, are probably asking yourself whether the $1,050 Steam Machine or $790 Steam Deck is worth it. The thing is, even Valve knows you don’t actually need to buy Valve’s handheld or PC/console hybrid. That’s not the reason they exist. Linux gaming blog Boiling Steam published two reports in the past week offering some analysis of Valve’s hardware sales data. First up, the blog used “napkin math” to decipher that Valve may be selling between 12,000 and 15,000 Steam Machines per week since launch on June 22. The majority of those sales should account for the cheaper $1,050 512GB Steam Machine compared to the $1,350 2TB version. Remember, you can’t actually buy one right now. You have to sign up for a waitlist and then pray your name gets called up to make a purchase. Limited supply will inevitably hamper long-term sales. Valve’s console is suffering from a limited supply that will necessarily hamper sales going forward. It’s worse news for the Steam Deck OLED. Since Valve raised prices on its handheld, the Deck dropped from the top 10 selling items on Steam. Boiling Steam estimates that Valve’s handheld sales have dropped by 80% since Valve hiked handheld prices back in May. That would indeed be a huge drop, if true. Valve staff obviously doesn’t like how high prices have become. However, these devices were never going to sell as well as other consoles.