Quoting: GustyGhostI thought that the whole point of the announcement and store pages which encouraged people to wishlist this hardware was so that Valve could gauge interest.

At the very least they could have estimated interest based on traffic through their store pages.

to be fair, their wishlist system dont allow you to tell then, you want more than one unit...
and it should, it was quite common for people to have up to 4 controllers, they should support at least that

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Quoting: Mountain ManConsidering how poorly the original Steam Controller was received, I don't blame Valve for underestimating demand. The difference now is that the success of the Steam Deck has made people more accepting of what is still a radical departure from traditional controller design.

... and the fact that this controller dont have any missing feature+new features...
and tmr sticks

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Quoting: JohnologueAlso, scalping doesn't make manufacturers money, unless the company is doing something VERY illegal that would be discovered very quickly.

it might not do then extra money, but unless they are losing money to get marketshare on each unity sold (as consoles usually do) it will make then money, just not at scalped prices.

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Quoting: HendrinMckaySadly, there aren't any mitigation's that folks won't find a way around. There was already a cap of two steam controllers per account that people were already getting around by buying non-limited steam accounts. Also, the level stuff does nothing, there are already sites that let you pay to level up steam account levels faster. Having had to deal with this for a company in the retail space with GPU's a few years ago, it is very hard to combat this in any meaningful way unfortunately. The scalpers will find a way, short of having some kind of lottery system which just pisses off paying customers.

there is one fix, make a shit ton of steam controllers, so they dont get sold out in the first place, but that is kinda of asking too much for an device no one knows how big the demmand is.

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i forgot to mention, some scalpers are puting ridiculous prices, i mean, if you can purchase one controler for 400 you can just wait a bit more and purchase the machine for whatever price valve puts in.

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i think this is good news and bad news at the same time.

the bad news is, valve is completely under estimating their demands, i mean, not only the controller should have a bigger demmand than the machine, but the machine should have an bundle that include the controller as well...

the good news is, those controllers are most likely sold at a profit, the more they sell, the more they can make not just controllers but the machines as well, that might be sold at a loss, not to mention purchasing then togheter with the bundle probably is cheaper than separatedly, the more expensive the controller was the easier to make the machine bundle seems like an good deal since they include it.

then, if they can relase the machine togheter with half life 3 in a bundle...

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: SakuretsuWe're probably not going to see such big jumps frequently.

That jump is already done. We are on a 3% per year rate right now. 2 years multiplied with 3% = 6% plus 3.5% of last year December = 9.5%. No further jump or acceleration, just continuing growth of last 6 months, which is very likely considering 25% of Win10 users and that Win11 growths slower than Linux does. I did not even include Steam Machine and VR or EOL#2 in this math.

And also consider this: until now Linux never had a slow down in growth. That will happen at some point, but there is no sign it will happen in 2026/2027.

most of people arent techy savy enough to install another OS, we are probably looking at the tech savy people installing linux on their machines right now, but soon we will enter the average joe territory.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThere is no real exponential trend. I did the math some hours ago and there was a linear trend before Steam Deck release, than an accelerated trend between Steam Deck Release and Win10 EOL and a 5.5 times increase after Win10 EOL. Steam Deck OLED did not change the linear trend. November and December 2025 had exactly the same 5.5 times increase as the whole 2026 until April. January and February were Chinese New Year, March somehow bad data, so these should be ignored.

If it would be a real exponential curve, March data would be real and April even above that. So it would be better to use 3 linear lines, clamped between those relevant dates.

PS: If it is linear we will see on Windows 10 extended support end of life. It should be around 6%. It should be far above 6% if it is exponential.

if we want an accurate trend line, it should be able to predict the future with an good precision.

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Quoting: GerarderloperBet Sony spending a fair bit of money trying to patch all these holes out.
Bit of a scenario of them shooting themselves in the foot because having a way to install Linux on these consoles will make them MUCH more popular and people will naturally buy the games for them anyway.

BUT they won't see it that way; gotta waste money and ruin everyone's fun, the corporate motto!

I've read they are now putting more DRM into consoles; wonder how long until Age Verification comes and you are required to have Face and ID scans to even turn the things on.... what a world!

I do wish Steam Machines were going to be affordable alternatives, but it seems that won't be happening for quite some time! Onward and Downward into the fiery pits we go!!!! :)

we used to have a lot of companies making their own proprietary operating system for phones with their own proprietary app stores, but they failed and now all companies use android, except for apple with iOS.

we used to have a lot of proprietary formats for pcs, nowadays we have ibm open pc and apple , basically.

I think the same will happen for consoles, a lot of companies making windows or linux devices, and sony will be forced to chose between the 2 or be kicked out of the market.
I think Nintendo might survive as "the apple of gaming consoles", their exclusive brands are too strong to simply disappear, the same cant be said about sony games, at least in terms of sales they arent such a big deal as fanboys think.

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finally an new star wars racing game?

i dont know if it will be good as the old ones, but one question that i really want to know the ansewer too...
star wars racing is the only game i know that you can turn your airship 90 degrees to pass through an small corner, an vertical hole, to get an short cut, looks like this movment is avaliable at this game, the question is, will the tracks use it? or it will be wasted?

and by looks like , i mean, im not sure by what i seen in the trailer.

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