IDC estimate Steam Deck has sold ~4 million units, total handheld PC market 6 million

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AddRat said:

This is most likely about what Valve is expecting out of this.

I think there is a disconnect with how some posters here perceive some products. Especially obvious when we had posts about how products like these are going to significantly cut into Switch 2 sales. Or even expecting something like the PS portal to do significant numbers.

The only way these PC handhelds matter is that they make hardcore power focused gamers less likely to buy Nintendo handhelds and instead buy a more expensive, better spec PC handheld, but those kind of gamers aren't possible for Nintendo to compete for in any case.