Sentenza
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What are you even rambling about?
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New sales estimates - Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming
- Thread starter LordOfChaos
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Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
I have to wonder if these numbers are accurate given developers actively spend time optimizing games to run on Steam Deck.
I also have to wonder how feasible a new Steam Machine would really be.
I also have to wonder how feasible a new Steam Machine would really be.
VitoNotVito
Member
Huh?
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
It's way more comfortable than a Switch.
neocycle
Member
How, when it weighs a third more than a switch and twice as much as a lite?
Do you have Hulk hands?
LordOcidax
Member
I have said this so many times in various threads, the Switch is on another league… To put this more in perspective, the worst year of the Switch in terms of on sales was the 2024 and managed to outsold the entire pc gaming handlheld market LTD COMBINED. And Nintendo is expecting to sell 20 million Switch 2 year 1… Still, some people are having hard time to understand this.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Just normal adult hands, and kinda thin even.
Being more bulky makes it more comfortable. And does it really weigh that much more than the Switch? Didn't get the impression.
Have you tried one? It really is more light than it looks, it surprised me.
Sentenza
Member
Literally no one did.
You were probably arguing with yourself in all these threads.
LordOcidax
Member
Lol, the Steamdeck was literally called the Switch Killer by some people here and all over the internet.
Sentenza
Member
We had a Steamdeck-centered thread barely weeks ago in this exact same forum where the UPPER END of the sales estimates for the Deck was exactly the same one that is being (somewhat) confirmed here.
You are fighting an imaginary battle versus a strawman who's not hitting back.
Because of lots of strawman arguments. Some people seem to believe (or refer to people who believe) it rivals consoles and/or Switch. Which it doesn't. And hasn't been the point of the SD. It's created a product for a market for portable personal computers which hasn't been done before with an affordable price for that kind of power. And given the numbers it shows that people wanted this. There's been over a million people who bought this, which is in absolute terms not a small number or "only a few people". It's not a crude 1.000 or 10.000 people kickstarter passion project.
ValiantInstance
Member
It's a great little device. Unfortunately the battery life drove me nuts and I switched it out for a Switch OLED. I might come back one day but I have two OLED tvs in my place now for desktop and console gaming so don't really need one at the moment.
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Shaki12345
Member
It is a niche product.
A king among mice. It is dominating the PC handheld space but that space is tiny. You go to handhelds in general and it's nowhere near.
Impotaku
Member
Like a dwarf amongst midgets.
spons
Gold Member
Switch has no actual competition, but considering it's not a PC, it's not truly comparable either.
I don't get why people buy Windows-based handhelds though. The Deck seems to have a much more integrated UI.
And Windows runs so poorly even the original Ally with its better hardware ran the same or worse.
It's just incredible how janky Windows is. The latest Ally runs better than the Deck but apparently you need to throw everything you've got at it.
I don't get why people buy Windows-based handhelds though. The Deck seems to have a much more integrated UI.
And Windows runs so poorly even the original Ally with its better hardware ran the same or worse.
It's just incredible how janky Windows is. The latest Ally runs better than the Deck but apparently you need to throw everything you've got at it.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
His point is that there are people who do claim that the deck competes with Switch. It is absurd on raw numbers and absurd because as you state, they are not even in the same sphere really.
Yes a small percentage of the million or so sales for the deck may come from people who considered the Switch as an alternative because they just wanted something portable. So what?
Parazels
Member
Like the pc-minority next to the console-majority!
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LordOcidax
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I was one of the ones that made those estimates… I am talking about older threads.
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FalconPunch
Member
If you add all the numbers up including the estimate, it's 7,898,000. If you add all the numbers up excluding the estimate, it's 5,972,000. None of those numbers are 6 million......
Tams
Member
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
And yet many people on GAF and in the gaming media said nobody wanted the Portal and that it was gonna flop.
kevboard
Member
well it was hard to predict that such a useless piece of hardware would actually sell units...
imagine if you told someone that a $200 device that has zero unique features and whose functionality can be entirely replaced by a cheap plastic clip and free mobile app that runs on any Android and iOS phone or tablet, would sell well.
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EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Nintendo has ignored handhelds and that blows my mind all the respectable gsmeboys, the ds and you know switch is a hybrid of course but many pick it as a home console and now there’s nothing.
Topher
Identifies as young
Those clips have been around for many years and very few people actually use them........because they suck. It is an unbalanced, unwieldly configuration that increases risk that your expensive device is going to land on the floor. If you are going to use phone/tablet analogy then at least use Razer or Backbone products.
Topher
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demigod
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DEAD ORIGINAL
Member
Talk about a limp dick pathetic sales PS Vita laughing at these sale numbers.
Switch Lite
Unknown Soldier
Member
PC handhelds would always been a niche market to begin with, anyone expecting it to grow exponentially and sell as many as Switch was delusional from the start
I'm glad the market seems stable though and the PC handhelds don't seem to be difficult to design and produce so they'll stick around for the small niche of PC gamers who want handheld play
I'm glad the market seems stable though and the PC handhelds don't seem to be difficult to design and produce so they'll stick around for the small niche of PC gamers who want handheld play
Mister Wolf
Member
It worked too. Now all the handhelds will begin offering a version with Steam OS.
Deerock71
Member
141+10 million more Switches.
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Unknown Soldier
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ChatGPT 0.001 is malfunctioning again
Felessan
Member
Ergonomics? Nah, never heard of it
Just duct some trash over dualsense and you are "good". And of course it will not work - those plastic constructs even looks bad and play even worse.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
LOL! Goes to show, y'all still don't get it.
DryvBy
Member
I don't really even understand who uses handheld devices anymore. I don't commute to work, I don't like leaning my head down to stare at a device, and I'm not a fan of sacrificing quality for a smaller screen that I can carry with me. I just can't imagine who these products are for.