That’s because it’s a fucking amazing device all around
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.
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.
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.
Year of the Linux desktop, finally?
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.
Australia, when?
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.
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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30 dollar pi? Really 30 dollar?? 😅
I have the steam deck. I’m asking about a dock.
I wish they sold it in my country
Yeah, 2 years or so later there’s still no official way to buy it.
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
We use Linux to get rid of malware and you want to reimplement it, use Windows if you don’t mind
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 can talk about it if it’s open-source and respects user privacy.
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.
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So they just sold 2 million, got it.
