• GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      If rhey only make 100 consoles and sell out, does that make it not niche?

      The steam deck, for all the talk of how amazing and what a massive success it is, has only sold about 5 million units in its entire lifetime. 5 million. The switch 2 sold like 4 times that in its first year.

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        2 days ago

        Only 4 times? That’s within an order of magnitude. Maybe steam is onto something.

        Maybe valve’s solution to the Anticheat problem is to increase the number of Linux gamers, thus increasing the voices asking publishers to support running their games on the steam deck.

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          2 days ago

          Did you miss the comparison being lifetime sales of the steam deck vs single year of switch sales? It also doesn’t include Xbox and PlayStation sales.

          Look at the Linux percentage on any steam survey. That’s how irrelevant it will be until Linux gets a solution for kernel level anti-cheat.