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| IcaroRibeiro said: As I said, I don't describe this as reinvigorated handheld space, rather as creating a new market space which is the hybrid-console market space. Valve's Steam Deck comes with a device to be plugged on TV or Monitors. Sure, it lacks a dock to increase its power, but I can see their concept is to state that you can play it like a standard PC (and even use it like a PC) If anything I think Switch was the last nail in the conffin of handhelds. With Lite barely selling 20% of the standard model last quarter we can see handheld-only Nintendo devices are now confines to a very small audience |
I don't think there is sufficient information to suggest that there is a new market space. To determine this we would have to seek competitor products (i.e. other hybrid units) that come to the market. We just aren't seeing that. In addition, I do not think that you can utilize the Lite's sales in that manner. People don't just look at the Lite as a cheaper dedicated portable console. They look at it as a Switch with less features. The reinvigoration of the portable console market comes from any home console primary gamer utilizing the portable nature of the Switch. The vast majority of Switch users utilize both modes. If any of those individual's would have been home console primary owners then Nintendo has reinvigorated a market. Conversely, you could also attempt to make the same claim with the home console market with the same logic, but the home console market was not in danger (home console sales; Gen 7 total: 260M Gen 8 total: 180M).
I do not think that the majority of people are purchasing a Steam Deck for TV play, though that is a feature that I'm sure will be used. Also, I'm fairly certain it doesn't come with anything to connect to your TV at the time and you have to purchase a separate USB-C to HDMI adapter for TV connectivity.
