• GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yet they’re still the most popular and most played games.

    If valve wants steam machines to ever be more than a niche, they need to fix this problem - and it IS a problem.

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        4 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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          9 hours 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.