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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Just out of curiosity but how many users have the deck? Aren't they already ~10M?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well if you're counting, I've got one.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Now Epic should feel really pressure to support Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

No, definitely not but getting there! Last year despite slow production ramp up, about one million were sold. Source: a SteamOS developer on a KDE conference in autumn.

This year a financial analyst company predicted an additional two million until the end of this year but that was before the OLED announcement. Valve then recently said "millions". So I guess 3 million may be a somewhat conservative estimate now that the OLED model is out. 4 million if we're generous. It'll take a while until 10 million are reached, if they'll be reached at all. My memory is a bit foggy but I think Valve people said that the Steam Deck was intended to launch earlier but the Covid semiconductor crisis delayed the announcement. My guess is that at least a Steam Deck Lite will be announced first but the overall performance will stay about the same, so that could drive sales a bit before the eventual successor comes out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's not about Deck alone. Supporting Deck, means supporting all Linux machines and everyone else with controller.