Valve when they opened pre-orders for the Steam Deck
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Little late to the party, aren't we?
I have not once seen you leave a positive comment on anything, ever.
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I have not once seen you leave a positive comment on anything, ever.
I'm definitely guilty of the heinous crime of sarcasm.
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I mean...
Not to take anything away from the Steam Deck, it's a very cool piece of hardware, but the Switch 2 beat its lifetime sales in what? Three weeks? I'm not even saying it's better, but I think people should get a sense of the scope of PC handhelds in general compared to consoles and the Switch specifically. And I say that as the owner of multiple handhelds, the Deck included.
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I mean...
Not to take anything away from the Steam Deck, it's a very cool piece of hardware, but the Switch 2 beat its lifetime sales in what? Three weeks? I'm not even saying it's better, but I think people should get a sense of the scope of PC handhelds in general compared to consoles and the Switch specifically. And I say that as the owner of multiple handhelds, the Deck included.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]For consoles in general Sony and Nintendo are the top dogs, no question, but I remember refreshing the pre order page over and over, got my order in about 10 minutes and was still placed in wave 3. I think scalpers are also largely responsible for both the Steam Deck and Switch sales, as I know no one IRL who has either and most of my friends are nerds.
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For consoles in general Sony and Nintendo are the top dogs, no question, but I remember refreshing the pre order page over and over, got my order in about 10 minutes and was still placed in wave 3. I think scalpers are also largely responsible for both the Steam Deck and Switch sales, as I know no one IRL who has either and most of my friends are nerds.
Are you from the US ? I procrastinated my preorder and did it a week after they opened them, and I think I got in wave 2 (western Europe).
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Are you from the US ? I procrastinated my preorder and did it a week after they opened them, and I think I got in wave 2 (western Europe).
On the OG Steam Deck or the OLED one? I am from Germany. I think you may have been in wave 2 of the next year block. There is no way you'd have received it in the same year, unless there was an error.
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I mean... Yes. It's a niche market but I'm still glad that niche market exists
️I don't think they're really competitors to the extent that their form factor similarity would suggest
It's very possible I don't really understand the point you're making (which doesn't make it invalid or anything, I just don't know that I follow)
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On the OG Steam Deck or the OLED one? I am from Germany. I think you may have been in wave 2 of the next year block. There is no way you'd have received it in the same year, unless there was an error.
OG one. I think you're right, I forgot because that year went by fast but I received it the next year
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I'm definitely guilty of the heinous crime of sarcasm.
Matching pfp
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I remember when that was the valve servers on any day of the week ending in "Y".
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I remember when that was the valve servers on any day of the week ending in "Y".
Good old green design. I miss the Counter Strike 1.6 days.
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Good old green design. I miss the Counter Strike 1.6 days.
The deck has the oldschool green design as a keyboard overlay style, and you can use Decky and CSS Loader to mod the rest of steam to look like that, and you can even find KDE themes that look like that.
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The deck has the oldschool green design as a keyboard overlay style, and you can use Decky and CSS Loader to mod the rest of steam to look like that, and you can even find KDE themes that look like that.
I am actually using the keyboard skin. Not sure if I am going to mod the rest, because its prone to break each update. But thanks for letting me know
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Not to take anything away from the Steam Deck, it’s a very cool piece of hardware, but the Switch 2 beat its lifetime sales in what?
I'm pretty sure they're doing OK with regards to percentage of units sold/manufactured, especially given they are not doing a worldwide release, and are selling direct to consumer instead of to stores.
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I am actually using the keyboard skin. Not sure if I am going to mod the rest, because its prone to break each update. But thanks for letting me know
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Haha yeah, god help you with applying custom KDE themes system wide, the standards have changed so many times over the years lol, shit breaks all the time.
If you don't want everything resetting on update, you could always switch over to Bazzite, its got a GNOME and KDE flavor for the Deck/Handhelds' desktop modes, helps you setup Decky and other stuff in a pretty automated way.
=D
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Haha yeah, god help you with applying custom KDE themes system wide, the standards have changed so many times over the years lol, shit breaks all the time.
If you don't want everything resetting on update, you could always switch over to Bazzite, its got a GNOME and KDE flavor for the Deck/Handhelds' desktop modes, helps you setup Decky and other stuff in a pretty automated way.
=D
Thanks for all the helpful tips
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Not to take anything away from the Steam Deck, it’s a very cool piece of hardware, but the Switch 2 beat its lifetime sales in what?
I'm pretty sure they're doing OK with regards to percentage of units sold/manufactured, especially given they are not doing a worldwide release, and are selling direct to consumer instead of to stores.
Weirdly so is Nintendo these days.
In any case I'm not sure what "percentage of units sold/manufactured" implies there. Everybody has some stock of their products. Selling through your stock isn't much of a metric unless you're doing limited runs on purpose. If Valve was selling these faster they'd manufacture them faster.
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Weirdly so is Nintendo these days.
In any case I'm not sure what "percentage of units sold/manufactured" implies there. Everybody has some stock of their products. Selling through your stock isn't much of a metric unless you're doing limited runs on purpose. If Valve was selling these faster they'd manufacture them faster.
I don't think they can manufacture them fast enough to keep up with demand, that's my point.
I wouldn't know if they are available to buy now, since they aren't sold in my region, wheras the switch is. Lemme check for switch 2...
It's not on LATAM Amazon, but it is available for pre-order off "gamestop". Steam deck is available off LATAM Amazon, but it is a weird on demand import kinda dealie, which is fairly common for some goods down here.
️The point is that their sales methods are apples and oranges, and trying to paint one as successful with the metrics of the other is unproductive. You can say that the switch/switch 2 sold more units than the steam deck, but then you can also say the steam deck sold more games in that time period, since steam probably sells more games in any given time period over the switch digital store, or that the steam deck can run more games.
Both are moot points when comparing them to each other.
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you gotta pay somehow for the customer service death squad
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I don't even think I can put into words how much I would not buy a system that can be bricked remotely by the company I bought it from.
