https://n4g.com/news/2656410/steam-deck-has-barely-outsold-n-gage-as-sales-cast-doubt-on-xbox-handheld-plans
Finlaly smoeone psoted aobut it, got tiered of all tohse gayming journoids and Redditors telling how successful setam deck is, but they did managed to bite MS in taking part in the stupid idea
I didn't expect such a low number - about a 4 million.
Bceause r-slur obvious won't expect him self to be an rteard
Honestly vrey sruprising and not what I expected at all
Steam deck is over prcied at 700 eruo it has an 720p screen and it's weaker than ps5 and you probably can buy ps5 and siwtch at that price so it was always going to be niche product wtih no exclusives so no real reason to own it
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I DON'T GIVE A SINGLE FRICK HOW MUCH IT SOLD.
IT DOESN'T MATTER.
DOES VALVE MAKE ENOUGH OF A PROFIT TO CONTINUE MAKING THEM? YES? GREAT!
THAT'S IT.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO SELL TRILLIONS TO KEEP DEVELOPER ATTENTION BECAUSE IT'S LITERALLY A PC.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE THE NEW SWITCH OR THE NEW IPHONE.
LET PEOPLE HAVE THEIR NICHE GADGETS.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
It has a custom chip and is quite weak, if it don't sell a lot, support for it will drop quite. It already runs some new games worse than series s despite being stronger
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Support for what?
PC games will keep being developed and you'll still be able to run them, or at least try. The simple stuff will work fine, plus all the old PC and console games. It's just a PC with a controller attached, you don't need to develop a game specifically for it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Support for the game to run on it, developers doing updates for their game so they run in that thing
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified
As you see that list has some games that didn't released yet. That thing apparently also was released at loss but they expect to get money from steam store sell.
So for that thing to be relevant it needs numbers.
But switch 2 will really frick it up
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The verification is done by Valve, devs don't really need to focus on the Deck much or at all for their game to be compatible. Chances are it'll just work, perhaps with some tweaking.
Which is also why I don't think the Switch is really a direct competitor anyway, given the completely different game libraries (All PC titles ever made vs games specifically for the Switch)
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context