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Soundwave on 10 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

I don't even agree with that characterization, it's like saying a car that can fly is pathetic because it isn't as large as a full sized aircraft ... well not shit, no one is going to say "it's not an airplane", they're going to say "holy shit, this car is flying". Traditionally in the past the idea of the relevant, popular portable platform of the day (say Game Boy or DS in the past) being able to run basically a direct version of the most popular 3rd party games was a pipe dream, but today that is becoming less and less the case. 

And no one cares. If they did steamdeck would doing massively better. It's been having every 3rd party game for 2 years now and no one is buying it people that like those type of games want them on powerful console or rig with a nice TV. 

Devices like the Steam Deck actually probably are going to overtake the XBox console line soon enough, and Switch 2 has a fairly good chance of repeating as the best selling hardware platform again. Steam Deck isn't even available in major retailers, future iterations probably will be. Right now people are still buying a $350 Switch 1 hand over fist in 2024. 

That's about the only segment of the traditional console hardware business that's actually growing, Sony and Microsoft hit a brick wall ages ago.