Probably the people who expected this to be the “Switch Pro” they never got because they kept hyping under the idea that a “Switch Pro that would be capable of 4K or 60FPS with modern games” was just around the corner and when it didn’t manifest and they instead got the announcement for the Switch OLED they ALL…

To be honest the problem is not neccessarily releasing the SNES ports but the simple of fact that localizing all the text(and doing so in an acceptable format, especially with the difference in the amount of characters required to spell an entire sentence in Kanji versus doing so in the roman alphabet considering a…

I’m really curious. Valve might be big on the PC market but.... ultimately that’s a market they were able to dominate because they’re not the ones making the hardware.

So unlike actual console makes, they never had to negotiate(as much, anyway) with the likes of component supplies and productions, efficient worldwide…

*nods*
And the ironic thing is the Series S still seem to sell much more badly than the Series X just on the basis of being Digital-Only(then again, I don’t see the retailers who often are the ones selling these actual consoles going out of their way to advertise a console whose whole selling point is NOT coming back…

Would the text display/UI works well on that size of screen though? Or is that adjustable enough that it could be easily adapted to be readable enough even in handheld format?

Honestly I think that, short of massive shifts, the biggest hurdle with “Handheld PCs” is that the games themselves are still kinda formatted…

Possibly, but even then this could limit mainstream access(even if it could still achieve SOLID niche success, the kind that could still hurt markets like that of “Gaming Laptops” a lot when establishing itself).

“Can connect to a TV” is one thing but “Can connect to a TV, in a very seamless and smooth process that…

Honestly I wonder if the people thinking this is destined for massive success could be wrong about the intended target(a lot of these people think this is meant to dethrone the Switch) and what the margin of success could be like.

Like some of these people seem to think it will steal tens of millions of players from…

Honestly, considering some of the components(I could be wrong, but I think it’s the case with the processor?) are used in the likes of PS5/Xbox, industry players with an already sizeable presence in the logistics supply chain, and even those two are struggling with supplies....

... I can’t help but wonder/worry what…

This said... I’m seeing so many people talk of using this as an emulation box that I’m actually starting to worry with how the likes of Nintendo’s lawyers divisions have been heavily trigger happy over emulations as of late.

I think it can and might do well but one thing I noted was game Newell saying he expected/hoped “millions” of sales. What I can’t help but wonder if what word was not used which is “tens” of millions of sales.

Maybe I’m seeing too much into this, but I feel it’ll be good if it attains 5-12 millions units sold.

But then…

You kind of answered one of the other hurdle of the Steam Deck though.

“Most of the world - an enormous majority - does not, in fact, have the disposable income to use on a dedicated gaming console of any kind, portable or not.”

Especially when it’s initial availability again will be “only in a few given countries” to…

The thing is will be “will enough be actually online enough to even know the Steam Deck exists?” might be the biggest hurdle. Come what may, people know of Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft because they can read about them in paper newspaper, see them in TV ads... even see the actual consoles at Walmart and so many other retail…

“I buy that the Steam Deck is a less a competitor for the Switch, and more so for gaming laptops.” honestly this.
It’s ultimately perhaps closer to a PC gaming platform.... competing with PC gaming platform because PC hardware is often unstandardized as heck and cost a heck ton(because unlike consoles, buying/building…

“In short, the Steam Deck will siphon off a number of users from the Nintendo Switch, but I think the number of those users leaving the Switch is not going to be significant enough to affect Nintendo financially or influence Nintendo in introducing the next-gen console faster.”

Honestly this is my thought there. Plus…

The thing is, are Retro Gamers and the like large enough of a crowd to actually sustain this thing when it’s been reported it’s likely sold at a loss?

Honestly a lot of people blame the WiiU’s lack of success on lack of third parties but I feel it was kinda the opposite.

The WiiU launched with ONLY third party titles and absolutely none of it’s usual first party franchise.
So people who wanted third parties... often already were planning to get them on non-Nintendo…

Considering it sounds like even the 399$ model is being sold at a loss, I wonder how likely it is that this thing will ever be on sale since technically even the base price sound like it’s discounted compared to what we’d otherwise pay for the hardware :/

Yeah.
Plus as noted by others there’s one matter: the only people who know the Steam Deck even exists is the people who’re already online enough to know of Kotaku and Polygon.
Sure a lot of self-professed gamers ARE those people but the gist is we don’t get consoles selling 80+ million units on just peoples like us.

Ulti…

Honestly this keep being talked by a certain crowd as a Switch contender, but I wonder if the market that might need to worry the most might not be Xbox/Playstation.
While a lot was written about “You can play Doom Eternal on the go!”/etc, ultimately these big “AAA”-style games have never really been the ones that sold…

I dunno.