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Soundwave on 10 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

If it sold near wiiu numbers in 2 years then I would say their something there but 3-4 million tells me there is no appetite for big thirdparty games on  a handheld.

I think you are wrong and will be proven so. Do you think gaming laptops just popped up one day and started selling millions per year right away? No they didn't, initially it was a slow crawl, the Steam Deck product category is an infant that's just taking its first steps and I think you're wrong frankly. This product category will grow. There was a time when playing like even PS2 quality games on a laptop was something that felt impossible, today laptops that run the same games as any other hardware config is something no one even bats an eye lash at. Steam Deck 2 will outsell the Steam Deck 1 and so on and so on and more and more hardware vendors will start making their own versions.