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g947otoday at 5:25 AM1 replyview on HN

You don't need to buy it, that doesn't matter. Sales numbers are more meaningful than anything. Consumers and developers have voted with their feet.


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ribosometronometoday at 6:26 AM

Sales numbers are also why Steam isn't in a particular rush to release another. It's popular to adult nerds. Outside of that, it's pretty poor selling when compared to essentially all consoles. The Dreamcast outsold it and Sega gave up on hardware cause of that thing. The PS Vita outsold it and it caused Sony to give up on handhelds. Meanwhile, the Switch 2 has pretty much no compelling reason to purchase it yet (an alright Donkey Kong game?) and outsold the Steam Deck's multi-year sales in a month.

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