i think they need more marketing...
i mean, they have the big relases (elden ring etc) so quality is not the issue.
they have tons of games, more than any console ever had, so quantity is not the issue.

but maybe they barely can produce enough units to meet the current demand, so there is no point in inscreasing the demand with marketing?

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"So when you think it's shifting this many with no traditional retail store presence outside of the previous link talking about a few Asian regions, and still only being available in select countries officially worldwide, it's doing well overall. "
considering the limited distribution its doing well, but considering the value proposition, its not very good.

"Realistically speaking, the Steam Deck is a niche device, especially considering a lot of people using Steam would already have a PC or Laptop to play their games. "
sure, but i dont think every nintendo switch gamer didnt had an 3DS or other platform prior to purchasing an switch, and laptops/pcs cant replace an handheld device (not that pc gamers would know this anyway, many of then just care about graphics and would never purchase an handheld that is weak compared to their mainrig anyway)

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im not surprised, nintendo is part of the khrnos group after all, the only strange thing is that news like this are rare.

" They're urging developers who overlooked Vulkan in the past due to being intimidated by it to perhaps give it another look."
maybe they tried to support vulkan but also compete with their own proprietary api exclusively for their console, just like sony did suporting openGL but also competing with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software#System [External Link]

but in this case, maybe they failed and prefer vulkan to thrive than to see directX12 being the standard...

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loved the name, is that a yana reference?
(of course its not xD)

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i hope they make an game that properly use steam deck.
dont get me wrong i would love to have some extra buttons on my keyboard, but they are a bit anoying in game controler, i feel the urge to press then even if they do nothing, sure having multiple buttons to do the same thing or configure some shortcut like screen shot is an option, but i would really like to see an game that take advantage of all controls without being an tech demo like the arpeture mini game.

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good news:
1)we can be prety much 100% sure that this game will support linux and probably will treat it as first class citizen, it will be opimized for linux as much as it is for windows or maybe even more.
2)it will probably try to squeze 100% of the potential of the steam deck.
3)its a famous ip, so it will have an big impact.
bad news:
1) its an fps, no matter how much we try to make it if an controler, many people will prefer playing it on a mouse+keyboard wich isnt great for an portable like the deck (sure it has the docked mode but its not it main usecase), even if its better on gyro+other controls that the deck provide, than with an mouse, muscle memory will make a lot of people stick to mouse+keyboard.

wait the beta test is windows only? sigh.
i can understand their reasons but that is shooting their own foot now that they have an "console".

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Quoting: Mountain ManThey're going to offer cosmetic items, but there's not going to be any "pay to win" nonsense.

they said the same about the mobile game.

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inst that the game where you have to spend 500.000 millions in lootbox in order to maximize one single character, or spend 10.000 years grinding your character (if they dont relase any update patch in this meantime) ?

i will pass.
even if its not, i dont trust blizard to not screw it in an update.

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i dont know, this fragmentation of package formats always cause issues for me.
for example, i couldnt find any tutorial on how to install plugins on vlc snap, libre office snap, and even retro arch had issues.

i end up having to install multiple versions of the same software in order to avoid issues.
because sometimes the snpa version has the features A,B,C, and the flatpak B,C,D and the app image C,D,E and the deb, D,E,F...
or the bugs instead of the features.

speaking of it, for example, recently i had to install another version of VLC just to make the fluidsynth plugin work.
gimp also caused issues with the lack of .ora support. (this format is very convenient if you want extract data from an gimp, just convert it to ora and you have all the frame data and time stamps you could wish in an machine/human readale format)

as for retro arch, i cant remember, i think i dont have some shaders instaled for some reason, they should be included by default but they arent anywhere.
or maybe it was video playback?

not to mention when an essential feature dont work, like hardware decoding for videos...

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itch is great, they let you set an custom fee, frm 1% to more.
at least they allowed last time i checked.
now they are charging 0 for a limited time... not a great difference if you already set it to 1, but still great...
its a shame we cant say the same about their payment processors (paypal or stripes, you chose)

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