Steam Frame: in a survey of 35 thousand applicants, less than half received a reserve

After the first Steam Frame lottery, the first guidelines for the headset shortage appeared.More than 35 thousand people checked in on the unofficial user tracker: about 44.7% reported receiving a reserve, 51.6% were on the waiting list, and the rest had not yet seen the letter.

These are not Valve statistics

The numbers are collected by the community and reflect only people who themselves came to the site and noted the result.They cannot be transferred to the entire Steam Frame audience: the sample is self-selected, and Valve did not disclose the total number of applications.

Nevertheless, the tracker clearly shows the situation among the most involved buyers: even in this group, not everyone was able to receive a device from the first batch.

How the queue works

Valve conducted a one-time random sampling on September 17th.The winners were given the opportunity to buy the device, the rest were placed in a queue.If someone doesn't pay the reserve, the instance goes to the next user.New applications now appear at the end of the list.

In our material about the price of Steam Frame We examined in detail the distribution and packaging system itself.The basic version costs $1059 (≈ 89,200 rubles) at the approximate rate of $1 ≈ 84.2 rubles as of September 19;There is no official Russian price.

Which version is chosen more often?

According to the same tracker, the 256 GB variant is more popular than the 1 TB model.For a headset that places a heavy emphasis on PC game streaming, internal storage really isn't always critical;microSD cards are additionally supported.

But even here it is impossible to talk about the real sales structure based on data from Valve itself.The survey shows the preferences of a particular community, not box office statistics.

Shortage remains the main issue

Steam Frame launches as an expensive and limited supply product.For Valve, the lottery reduces the advantage of bots and resellers, but does not create additional devices.Therefore, the speed of the queue now depends primarily on the actual volume of production and the percentage of refusals from reserves.