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> that sounds like a flop to my book It would be a flop for a traditional console, but the Steam Deck isn't a console, it's a PC. The reason that consoles need
by kibwen 4y ago
> that sounds like a flop to my book
It would be a flop for a traditional console, but the Steam Deck isn't a console, it's a PC. The reason that consoles need massive sales is because consoles have a limited repertoire of games (at best, they might be backwards-compatible with the previous-generation console), so they need large sales to demonstrate an install base and convince developers to make games for the platform. But if you're compatible with PC software, you don't care about that. Valve doesn't need to entice anyone to make PC games; the install base for the Steam Deck is the entire PC market. And with the help of emulators, a PC has access to multiple orders of magnitude more games than any existing console.
So the metric for success for the Steam Deck isn't to compare it to a console, rather it's to compare it to other specific PC form factors (e.g. a specific model of laptop).
- Kukumber 4y ago> It would be a flop for a traditional console, but the Steam Deck isn't a console, it's a PC I don't think people use it as a PC, but more like as a portable media center, the Switch and the PSP do that as well (even the PSP had a web browser!) So it's wrong to picture the Deck as the exception, even thought it can and is a supported use case They sell it and market its gaming capabilities https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck You see games, not office apps, emails or social media apps, you don't have front facing camera so you can't use it for your meetings
- ghodith 4y agoYou've misunderstood the point. It's not that people use it like a PC that matters, it's that it's compatible with PC games.