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CTOnews.com, July 16 (Xinhua)-- Valve's Index VR headset is a high-end PC VR device launched in 2019 for $1000 (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 7150 yuan). Despite its high price and a four-year history, the headshow has maintained amazing sales momentum, making it the second most popular VR headshow on the Steam platform (after Quest 2) and making Valve the second largest headdisplay vendor on the platform.

The Index VR head has won the favor of many players with its comfortable wearable feel, excellent visual effects, excellent sound, accurate tracking and innovative controller, even with the emergence of competitive products with higher resolution, cheaper or OLED display.

However, there has been a marked decline in Index VR sales in recent months. Although Valve does not release specific sales figures, we can roughly see the performance of this model in the market through Steam's weekly product sales rankings (by revenue). According to the data collected by SteamDB, Index VR Touxian has been in the top 10 in the past few years, even in the top three, but from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2023, its sales began to decline gradually, and recently even fell out of the top 90.

There are many reasons for this change, and the decline comes six to eight months after Valve released Steam Deck. Steam Deck is Valve's first hardware product since Index VR. It is a portable game console that can run games on the Steam platform. The device sold very well in the holiday season at the end of 2022, which may have given Valve a bigger business opportunity. Therefore, Valve may put more energy and resources into Steam Deck, and may even allocate some production capacity from Index VR to meet the needs of Steam Deck. At the same time, Valve also promotes Steam Deck rather than Index VR head display on the Steam platform.

Of course, another possible reason is that Meta's Quest 3 display will be available this fall, and many users may choose to wait for the new head show.

What does this mean for Index VR headers and Valve's future VR hardware plans? We don't know yet. There is no doubt that the VR market has changed a lot since the launch of Index VR headsets, especially with the advent of stand-alone VR headsets that don't need to connect to a computer or mobile phone. Although there are signs that Valve is still developing some new projects behind the scenes, the company is likely to focus on Steam Deck for the foreseeable future.

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