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That's wishful thinking at best, but it'll still do great for the type of product it is.if it keeps growing it might outsell the game gear
That's wishful thinking at best, but it'll still do great for the type of product it is.if it keeps growing it might outsell the game gear
It depends, what do you mean with "support"?it has the support of the company that built it.
The PS Vita had support for PS1, PSP and PS3 games (the latter via PS Now, to fair), and several ports of PS2-PS4 games (Sly Cooper and Resogun come first to mind).Plus it plays Sony’s console games.
Vita sold over 14 million, there is no way steam deck at 1.6-2 million a year is going to outsell vita before a successor.https://omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2...led-base-to-surpass-three-million-during-2023
According to the article valve sold 1.62 million units in 2022, and should experience a healthy 14% growth to 1.85 million in 2023, if it keeps growing it might outsell the game gear and vita, which are the 2 best selling portable not by Nintendo or the psp
Sounds like the steam deck is carving itself out a nice little niche, hopefully valve makes a steamdeck 2 it in another 3 or 4 years
Obviously something like the switch or ps5 can sell that many units in a good month but the steamdeck is a very different product as it is very much an enthusiast product , Gabe Newell hand delivered units, what is more enthusiast than that. Plus no money on ad campaigns, probably sold at a profit, and steam use still lets them profit off of usage
Anyway all the nutters that thought it would destroy the switch have been proven to be nutters, and all the sensible people that thought it would be a hit niche product and a win for valve have been proven correct
thats the thing that gets me. People who dislike the steam deck dislike it, but the most of people who love it fucking love it. It completely changes their gaming habits, and overall gaming becomes more comfortable and fun for them. people who weren't gaming much lately started playing more after their Deck purchase. I don't think i've even heard that positive of a reception for any other handheld device.If it can sell around 2 million per year that’s definitely a healthy business for what it is. Seems some people who buy one suddenly begin playing a lot more games so it’s a big benefit to Valve.
Anyone who thought it would destroy the switch in terms of sales figures are nuts, But if it does sell over 3m by end of 2023 I'd say that's more than a niche product.
I'm just going off of what the OP said, I agree with you that the Vita was a massive failure but I also don't think the steam deck is a success, with 120MM MAU on steam they do advertise it on their platform with a permanent banner and sometimes a homepage takeover and keep it at the top of the best sellers list (which is obviously a lie since most new games sell way more than that thing yet it stayed in the top 2 and is number 1 right now for some reason).The vita was such a miserable flop because it was pushed as the next big thing with a bunch of advertising and retail space to account for. This has had 0 advertising and you can only buy it directly from Steam. I doubt Valve sees it as a failure.
Yeah, like Valve employees have anything to do besides ban Japanese games. God forbid a game with panytshots gets through.I'd expect Gabe to start scaling back support incrementally, so as not to outrage his small yet fervent Steam Deck following.
Anyone who thought it would destroy the switch in terms of sales figures are nuts, But if it does sell over 3m by end of 2023 I'd say that's more than a niche product.
Anyone who thought it would destroy the switch in terms of sales figures are nuts, But if it does sell over 3m by end of 2023 I'd say that's more than a niche product.
Who thought this again?
Why do you think that? The Steam Deck is selling at a loss.probably sold at a profit
I'm just going off of what the OP said, I agree with you that the Vita was a massive failure but I also don't think the steam deck is a success, with 120MM MAU on steam they do advertise it on their platform with a permanent banner and sometimes a homepage takeover and keep it at the top of the best sellers list (which is obviously a lie since most new games sell way more than that thing yet it stayed in the top 2 and is number 1 right now for some reason).
I know the top sellers list is based on revenue but i still doubt that and the valve index being that high with such low sales
It depends, what do you mean with "support"?
The PS Vita had support for PS1, PSP and PS3 games (the latter via PS Now, to fair), and several ports of PS2-PS4 games (Sly Cooper and Resogun come first to mind).
It's not a failure by any means. It's a good product, if nothing else.No one ever said that.
No one ever said that.
I don’t think anyone thought that lol
Nobody said this?
Anyway I've been enjoying mine, brings me back to the PSVita days.
Who said that a device only sold online on 1 marketplace would destroy the Switch in sales?
I feel like a good 30% of discussion around here is people making up fake arguments that nobody ever made then saying theyre wrong
It's not a failure by any means. It's a good product, if nothing else.
Nobody RFTA, they look at the topic and start pontificating. No description of methodology in the blogpost and they cite themselves as a source. I've seen bogus 4chan rumors with better sources. My guess? They took the 1M sold news from the October KDE conference, did some back-of-the-envelope calculation to extrapolate sales numbers. Good enough to publish!Lmao, so they are reporting on themselves, about a research they did themselves, and can´t provide any data to their claim. But anyway, 1.6 millions is enough for Gabe to drop it.
For perspective, this is sold online only through Valve in limited countries. Switch is available globally in all stores.2 million units despite the highly vocal and over-aggressive fan base.
for perspective, the switch sold 5 million units first month of release worldwide.
They'd have to make it available globally and in all popular stores first.Doing better than I expected. It's still rather pricey for most where I live
With the way FSR and DLSS are improving the next iteration should sell gang busters.
Because it costs a lot of money to design and launch HW and the more HW you support the harder your job supporting all of that is (the launcher, Proton, the entire Steam Deck experience, the Steam Deck verified games, etc…). Devs making changes for Deck would have an even harder time if the target kept changing.Sadly valves recent comments have shown a change in mindset, though I have no idea why when the sales are not even close to console-like so why relegate it to console-like hardware updates?
The economy is different.2 million units despite the highly vocal and over-aggressive fan base.
for perspective, the switch sold 5 million units first month of release worldwide.
And plays its whole library!Slowly but surely will get to Dreamcast levels
I'm not saying this is wrong but Valve is usually transparent so them not saying anything about sales like this is strange to me.
The device is a success regardless I don't doubt that Valve was not intending to sell 2 million decks. I think 5m is a possibility before they replace it
It is honestly shaping up to be nothing more or less than I predicted it would be. I'd expect Gabe to start scaling back support incrementally, so as not to outrage his small yet fervent Steam Deck following.
Nintendo fanboys foaming at the mouth right now... probably peeing in the carpet of happiness as well.
SD is by far the best selling portable PC ever... Valve is happy owners are happy even Nintendo fanboys are happy.
The Dec k is a Huge success and Valve will keep the good support on it moving forward.
I bet it will part of every major Steam Sale from here on out. If not at least once a year. That being said they didn't discount the dock I belive.Damn it, I should have bought one with the 10% coupon.
So if it's a huge success at 1.5 million sold a year, then what would a failure have been?
Gaming on Linux is getting better and better, but the reason SteamOS is working so much better in SteamDeck is not that there has been some groundbreaking achievement in Wine/Proton/SteamOS (sure there has been some of that too), but that SteamDeck is a single device where Valve is in control of the HW design (semi-custom AMD SoC) and they can tailor and optimise the software stack around it (and give developers an easy way to get brownie points from people with Steam Deck verification). This made the job easier for Valve and the community around Steam too.One thing that I hope gets pushed going forward is perhaps a proper SteamOS for desktops where every game just works. I would like to get off of Windows. I only really use my PC for gaming and some light web browsing and media applications. Deliver that and MS can eat my ass.