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Soundwave on 10 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

Valve isn't even trying hard to sell that thing, have they even made 1 single television commercial for it? It's something they sold in limited quantities, not even available at retail, not available on Amazon, 3-4 million on that basis is impressive also considering for like the 1st year of sales there was extremely limited quantities with wait lists that stretch into months. And you have now more and more hardware vendors lining up to make their own version. 

That product sector is only going to grow, in 3-4 years I wouldn't be surprised at all if its above the XBox traditional consoles which are cratering sales wise. 

Switch 2 is the successor to what is probably the best selling console in the 50 year history of the business ... it's gonna get that benefit of the doubt, tough shit. That's one of the perks of being born into the hardware legacy of the best selling console platform ever. 

Steam has 120 million active users and avertise it on their page all the time so they really don't need commercials every gamer knows about the Steamdeck is just they prefer to play on pc.

Or y'know Valve is selling millions of a product they basically gave less marketing than the Wii U got, has no retail presence, had people waiting on waitlists for months when for like a period of year after launch. I've said this will be a growing segment of the market and I stand by that. In 3-5 years, it wouldn't surprise me if these types of devices are moving 4-10 million units per year or more and then you have the Switch 2 as well. 

Lots of publishers are going to start taking that product sector a lot more seriously, because Sony and MS have stagnating in growing their market share, even though MS is spending through billions of dollars and wasting all this market money, even Sony isn't growing.