It is on track to sell more this year than last year, more last year than the year before despite no price drop, since it doesn't have to support its own game development ecosystem and sells at a profit that sounds successful, if niche, to me.
Steamdeck sold 1.6 million in 2022, sell another 2 million in 2023, report
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It is launched last year... this is the first year sales.
Steam Desk made 1 year in Feb 25, 2023.
No... that only proves my point. The Switch... not the Steam Deck... proves why Sony ain't fucking with handhelds again...Now you reached the point of the post you quoted... congratulations
You got it wrong breh!
Steam Desk failure just shows why Sony is not investing in portable market anymore after Vita failure.
It is not worth to invest in a portable that will sell like less than 10 million lifetime.
No. The Vita's failure shows why Sony isn't investing in the portable market anymore.
You say the Deck proves there isn't a market for portables... yet ignoring the Switch which would overwhelmingly prove there's a market for portables.... yet Sony ain't fucking around with one, are they? And that's because the Vita was a failure and their successful business revolves around console.. and they know that. Nintendo's now revolves around portables.. and they know that. And Steam's revolves around PCs... which is why the Deck is smartly a hybrid PC... and they know that.
handheld is not niche. PSVR 2 is a system of the other system, that is niche.
PSVR 2 fail or will succeed, at least, it is something fresh and untapped compared to handhelds.
Massive failure, just like the steam machines was. All it's made for is to entrench Steam's monopoly of PC gaming by bundling in their atrocious OS with it.
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BSing clown caught with the numbers game hypocrisy getting clowned yet still acting like it isn't happening or the room isn't all in on it.
Cope cage.
Cope cage.
I don't think either of them are flops. I also don't think valve was expecting to sell >10mil steam decks a year.
You should be happy that steamOS is a thing, it's the only thing that's giving pc an alternative to move away from windows.
I'm just saying. That user don't waste time call psvr2 a flop when the majority of sales comes from Sony direct. In uk no one is selling it literally. Now his excuse is the hardware not available everywhere?
Double standards
It doesn't get the same energy because PSVR2 is its own platform with its own library... unlike the Steam Deck.
PSVR2 lives and dies with how much of a market it can create.... Steam Deck doesn't. PSVR2 is exactly like the Vita... and it will fail like it too.
Jesus you guys are terrible at basic logic and reasoning.
As far as I remember at least during launch they were selling the units they made and Valve already mentioned future versions, meaning they are happy and plan to continue with it.
This is a first version, a very expensive portable for early adopters, so very likely they didn't expect to go mainstream and always has been considered as something niche. I mean, the fact that they only sold it in their website already hints that they didn't consider it as something that they planned to go mainstream because if that would be the case it would be available in any digital and retail store.
I think their plan is to have released it as a first iteration that they'll keep improving its software, and in future versions hardware and pricing to get somewhere in the future where it can be a not that niche product, something maybe even viable for the mainstream. Their main business and profit source is Steam, so this is more likely a side pet project for them.
We don't even have the launch weekend or month sales for PSVR2, so even less first year sales. Sony got happy with PSVR1 numbers and expect PSVR2 to outperform it, and Valve seems happy with Steamdeck.Hope you keep that same energy with the PSVR2
Sometimes when companies introduce a new technology that they know will need many years to properly get in the market have realistic, low expectations and don't need massive numbers to be happy.
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Sweetie... PSVR2 requires developers to build games specifically for it... or it's useless junk... just like the Vita was.
That's not the case with the Steam Deck... The Steam Deck is a handheld PC.. which doesn't even require you to use Steam.