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How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story
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Seems pretty easy.
Step 1: direct the largest library/store of games ever
Step 2: create the best piece of gaming hardware ever
Step 3: dribble out pre-orders for a year to really get that slow hype train rolling
The only problem with this plan is that Valve have massive issues when it comes to counting to 3.
Confirmed?
If that's their biggest flaw, I'll take it every day.
I wouldn't call the steam deck the greatest piece of gaming hardware ever. There are many very well equipped PC handhelds out now. The difference that Valve brings is that their software is impeccable and they have a good history of supporting their hardware with up to date software for many, many years.
While there is better hardware out there now I can guarantee you that the software sucks on all of them in comparison to the steam deck. And if you run HoloISO on them you won't get the full feature suite.
Plus of course the price point. You can get a refurbished SteamDeck for like 330€ now. While alternatives start at like at least twice that for almost the same performance.
Competitors have better performance, but the overall hardware of Steam Deck is unmatched so far. Trackpads alone make it so much more flexible.
You're absolutely wrong and cannot be more wrong with that condescendingly patronizing attitude of yours.
Can you elaborate on how I'm wrong? That's a pretty destructive comment you wrote there
Where were they condescending or patronizing? They just disagreed with you politely, relax dude.
I mean ya can't really evaluate the hardware and ignore the software. The hardware won't do anything without it.
Additionally Valve was the first to my knowledge to incorporate actually comfortable hand grips (at the expense of size), gyros, and trackpads.
Any handheld that's not just a basic emulator is totally nullified by their garbage software (in my opinion).