That’s because it’s a fucking amazing device all around
And it’s gotten to a point where it’s being used as a utility computer in places, if I recall. That could’ve potentially sent sales snowballing away from typical console sale figures.
It’s a Linux machine with good cpu, 16gb of ram, KDE and you can install stuff with flatpak AND distrobox. If you have a dock, there really is no reason not to use as a normal computer.
They use it in Ukraine to control machine gun turrets!
They are also used to control Star Wars robots in Disney world.
I’m
- Not surprised.
- Super happy about this.
Ever since it was widely available, I see one on every flight I take. It’s not surprising it’s sold well.
I’ve never seen one on flights, but mine is always out
You’re the one they see every flight. Keep up the good work
Sponsored by valve… I just fly all day long playing streak deck, part of their Deck Flyers influencer program
I was going to say the same thing, but then I spent my last few flights staring at elden ring. Who knows what was going on around me.
Never seen one Steam Deck in the public yet and I don’t know any friends who bought one. I’m an europoor tho.
Valve has an incredible product on their hands, with the OLED model surely they will sell millions more. In a few years when a steam deck 2 comes out it will be an instant purchase for me. Valve hit a new stride with the deck.
Out of interest, do you own a steam deck already?
And if not, why are you so confident you’ll buy the theoretical future “steam deck 2” instead of buying this current OLED gen?
I currently own a steam deck. I got it in the first batch of deliveries. As far as a tech product goes, I have never consistently used a tech product for this long outside of my desktop. I almost always find myself migrating back to my desktop for everything, except with the steam deck. I actually find myself doing things on my deck instead of my desktop.
When version 2 comes out (or if I can get a sweet deal on the OLED down the road) I will for sure be upgrading without hesitation.
I have a decent but aging gaming PC, but that desk doubles as my office now, so I don’t always feel like doubling down my time in there after work.
Now I can game wherever.Not only is the SteamDeck nice, SteamInput is amazing, no more unchangeable bindings.
Text heavy games aren’t always the best at that resolution, but otherwise I’d say I’ve gamed more on it then on my 3080.The opening scene of Subnautica 2 was a nice experience to have on a flight.
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I’m in a similar situation. Streaming fron the PC to the deck is fantastic. Games the Deck struggles with are suddenly playable. Intense games that would normally ramp up the fan and only get a couple of hours of battery are suddenly easy for the Deck to handle. I highly recommend it.
I’ve wondered if it would be worth getting a dock to hook it up to my second monitor in desktop mode for just web browsing and watching videos.
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I have the steam deck. I’m asking about a dock.
For sure! It makes it a lot more convenient for usage as a desktop if you have the dock, I use one from JSAUX😎
I love love love my steamdeck! It re-invigorated my gaming! Currently loving Brotato.
I thought dynasty warriors would surely kill the battery, holy shit it’s draining it as slow as some of my puzzle/sudoku games do! I’ve got 5 hours of ps3/PS4 (dare I say poorly ported?) goodness at my finger tips! Now if only I had time, energy, and no other obligations to play 10%as much as I wanted to
Could be the upside of poor multi-core optimisation.
I got mine like a month or two ago and it’s by far my favorite device. I’ll keep buying steam decks for as long as they make them.
They make alot of em, you are falling behind!
I’m not a big online multiplayer person, which I’ve been told makes me the model audience for it. My impressions have been nothing but positive for the six months I’ve owned mine. I haven’t had any issues with games either, which compared to the last Linux laptop I used is just wow. I’ve been playing Mortal Kombat 11 this week and the graphics it call pull off are impressive given its footprint. If a 2 comes out I’m definitely getting it day one.
I can’t believe how long the battery life is when playing Wii games on dolphin.
Like how can I play for hours and still have so much space left over?
Haha right? I’ve got an embarrassing amount of hours in animal crossing and Kirby Air Ride and neither makes the fan even turn on outside of the initial shader compilation.
So they just sold 2 million, got it.
I believe the estimated numbers are closer to 3.7m but I don’t have a reliable source on this. I think some people on /v/ ran some total revenue numbers and did some math to derive that number.
Ah, so they sold a few million units.
Are you telling me they sold multiple millions of the Steam Deck???
Yes, that’s what they said.
Multiple: consisting of, including, or involving more than one.
Yes, and that is what gave me pause, it seemed too generic to be a coincidence, meaning that I read it as they only had sold 2 millions.
I had it pegged a little lower than what they got. I figured just upwards of three million.
Two is too small, and saying ‘multiple’ seems like it’s just sensational BS. Anything 5 and over, and they’d want to more clearly specify just how many millions they had sold. That leaves 3 and 4, but four would probably get a ‘nearly five million’. That leaves three as the most likely, with four a small possibility. I figured 3.2-3.3 mil.
And yet it’s still not available natively in my country
I wish they sold it in my country
Yeah, 2 years or so later there’s still no official way to buy it.
Australia, when?
Year of the Linux desktop, finally?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Valve has sold “multiple millions” of its Steam Deck handheld gaming PCs, Valve designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais tell The Verge.
Given that it just announced a new revision with an OLED screen, the company is probably set to sell a lot more.
The Steam Deck has been a hit for Valve right from its launch; when the device first went up for preorders in July 2021 (has it really been that long?
), the demand created some major issues for Valve’s Steam store.
And the handheld gaming PC is often at or near the top of Steam’s top-selling chart — even just two months after the device’s official February 2022 launch, it was clear that the Steam Deck was not a flop.
The company apparently even made a cake to celebrate selling 1 million units.
The original article contains 182 words, the summary contains 137 words. Saved 25%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Uh actually no, bad bot.
The cake was a lie.
Multiple millions, aka millions?
If we’re being extra pedantic I’d say it was at least 4 million.
Now valve needs to sell a kernel level anti cheat that works on steam deck so we can play them games
That’s very much against the philosophy of Linux. At best you’d divide Linux gaming into trusted (known operating system, hypervisor, no root access), and untrusted systems.
It’s essentially what Google are trying to do with attestation, Web Environment Integrity, etc.
Edit: there’s no way to stop cheaters without also stopping software freedom in general. The best path forward might be to focus on building communities of people who enjoy playing games together.
Or here’s a revolutionary thought: let people voluntarily (and reversably) opt-in to kernel-level anti-cheats.
Part of freedom is the freedom to choose.
Nobody should be letting a closed source black box run on their kernel, especially not from Epic Games (a CCP company).
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From the top of this thread, Valve was suggested as a candidate for someone who might already be interested in these things, perhaps to the point of invested into each of those.
Or maybe they don’t. Maybe nobody does.
People can speculate and dream. Nobody’s speaking authoritatively here, and certainly nobody is petitioning that Linus himself get down and dirty in anti-cheat functionality.
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We use Linux to get rid of malware and you want to reimplement it, use Windows if you don’t mind
I think it would be easier for them to put Windows preinstalled
