steam deck price philippines

The Steam Deck has now made its way to retailers here in the Philippines and will now be available soon. A recent study by the e-commerce aggregator iPrice Group has shown that Asians, including Filipinos, are more excited about Valve's Steam Deck than the Nintendo Switch OLED. According to their study, across the 10 Asian countries observed, Steam Deck has nearly 3x Nintendo Switch OLED’s Google search interests within July 2021. Even in Japan, the hometown of the Switch, the Steam Deck search is almost 8x more than Nintendo Switch OLED’s. In the Philippines, there is a 67-33 ratio (67% being more interested in Steam Deck). Filipinos look up Steam Deck more than 2x as much as Nintendo Switch OLED, with about 62.1k searches for the former and 30.8k searches for the latter. iPrice said that there are many possible reasons as to why many are more interested in the Steam Deck, but one of them is the amount of cross-play games Steam is known to have. And iPrice recorded Steam to have the most number of cross-play games across all platforms. Read more in our articles including "Steam Deck prices in the Philippines" and "Filipinos are more excited about Steam Deck than Nintendo Switch OLED, says study".