Note that it doesn't need nearly as high sales to be profitable. With a traditional console, you can only play games specifically made for the console, so if yo

Note that it doesn't need nearly as high sales to be profitable. With a traditional console, you can only play games specifically made for the console, so if you don't sell 10s of millions of units, there won't be games for it. The steam deck can play anything on steam that works on linux (well over 50% of the total catalog) so the necessary volume to break even is way lower.