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It's not a lie.
Top seller is sorted by revenue generated.
And a random user rant who know's/show's nothing to-boot...
The Steam Deck has been out since February, you really think they are selling 14k of these things every week still?
I realize Steamspy is far from accurate, but with a 200k-500k estimate for Hellsinger, Steam Deck would need to sell more than 14k to get the #1 spot.
Plus, the Steam Deck has ALWAYS been in the #1 spot. Unlikely, no?
*Correction* It has sat at #2 a few weeks.Still unlikely.
They have 2 weekly drops for orders on Monday and Thursday.
Yes, they do sell that many of all 3 models combined.
People had a hard time when the Index released and was in the top spot for the same exact reason.
And Hellsinger is a $30 game and is cheaper than that in almost every region.
The Top seller list is a rolling 24 hour window. It is not for the 'week' it represents the past 24 hours of sales on the platform
Again steamspy explicilty tells you, DO NOT USE STEAMSPY NUMBERS TO ESTIMATE REVENUE
There is a reason they tell you NOT to do this
https://steamspy.com/about
Its because your 'analysis' is so bad and ignores so many extremely obvious factors such as
1) The part where you don't know steam's best seller is 24 hour not 1 week window
2) The part where steam has repeatedlly told people the entire best seller list is automated and is not 'rigged'
3) The part where you totally ignore that not everyone buys their games directly on steam
4) the part where you conflate total sales with a top 10 best seller list that has a 24 hour window
Yes they are, they ramped up production and people are getting their pre-orders now earlier then anticipated. They haven't even worked thru their pre-orders yet, let alone started shipping units to other countries.
They are sold as fast as they are made still, with no signs of slowing down
You assume it must not be selling in sufficient numbers, therefore Valve is lying. But you don't have any data to base your assumptions on. So what's an uninformed user to do? Double down on their baseless assumptions.
It's unlikely when you don't have good data and can imagine whatever is convenient.
The problem is you think Valve is putting their thumb on the scale. So your solution is demanding Valve puts their thumb on the scale to satisfy your beliefs, which is even sillier than Valve "lying" about Steam Deck revenue.
Just feeling like something is wrong, and being able to assume and engage in confirmation bias, I think you'll find makes the weakest argument possible whenever you don't have an axe to grind in any other circumstance.
And let's what-if. Let's say the Steam Deck isn't selling as well, maybe still in the top ten, but not #1 or #2. Don't you think the developer/publishers who've been unfairly treated would maybe speak up? I mean it arguably affects all the developers on Steam if Valve is manipulating their numbers. And what is Valve gaining from that in exchange for the risk? It's the sort of thing that's guaranteed to leak and cause a huge PR storm across users and developers. For what? Steam Deck demand is already pretty strong. But you assume it's all lies? And how exactly does Valve convince you? You're already convinced the current data is wrong, so different made up data you feel is more "realistic" will satisfy you? I don't think you've thought this true.
Once you believe the moon landing is a hoax, and the Earth is flat, and Steam Deck revenue is a lie, all you're gonna do is lean into confirmation bias. And reasonable people are just going to have to leave you to your nonsense conspiracies.
Seems a bit silly.
So, luxury airplane are top sellers ?
Maybe it's not a lie but is misleading. Top sellers are always measured by number of unit sold. At least in this universe.
Not really, for businesses revenue is a completely normal metric for reporting your top seller. Especially when you have products with a vast range of prices.