Quoting: CatKillerLinux was at 1.27%, of which 21.05% was the Deck. So the 1.6 million represents roughly 0.27 percentage points of the Steam market*. If we add another 1.9 million, that's an additional roughly 0.32 percentage points

if your numbers are right, then steam might have half a billion users nowadays... i dont think this is correct, last time i checked it was something arround 120 millions or maybe 160 millions, but not even close to 500 millions.

there is something wrong here, either most steam deck users install windows on their machines, or linux marketshare is wrong or steamOS marketshare...

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another thing to consider is:
deck might be the first gaming device in history to sell a lot without exclusives.
if deck can prove its possible, then others will be more pressured to follow.

be it by the public or maybe even stake holders.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumConsider that many Windows gamers are straight up dead set against Linux.

Oh yes, I've seen a plenty of windows slaves hating linux with boiling blood. It is quite unsettling to see people who hate freedom so much and defend their shackles.

that is the issue with us linux users:

we see freedom as freedom to use,modify and distribute an software, without anyone trying to restrict us in what we can do.
but in pratice we have tons of restrictions upon us due to the lack of support from software/hardware vendors (im counting games as sofwares), for years we didnt had many games to play, even if we could play then it was a pain to make then work properly that is, if it was possible at all, some times you followed the entire tutorial of how to install something on linux, but it didnt worked on your distro, or your video card vendor or it did for someone else but not for you for unknow reasons, it was a mess!
and online games are still an issue.

windows users see freedom as the ability to do whatever they want
sure they cant modify some parts of the system, but realistically that is too niche, most of then dont care about desktop customization, what they care about is being able to play whatever they want and be able to edit videos with tons of options of video editing softwares, being able to make games (we barely had any option) being able to use all photoshop features +gimp if you think photoshop isnt as good as gimp...
as for modifying? moding was aways an possibility on pc gaming, compared to that, what we had? we could chose between countless desktop enviroments that do the same thing?
try to 3D modeling with KDE without blender to see if its "freedom".

windows users DONT HATE FREEDOM, they just think windows gives then more freedom.
they dont have a clue about what source code is, nor couldnt care less, source code seems useless from the point of view of an non programmer, if you cand understand an code to do anything with it, what is the point ?
now, compare the ammount of pre built options of an "super tux" game with the ammount of easy to use power ups and traps in your average "mario maker", what gives more freedom to the average joe ?

i know a lot of windows users who hate linux, not because they never tried, but because they did and hated it.
then they were haressed by the community who were too busy trashtalking then to offer any help to fix their issues.
i grew up with linux users calling me lazy and blaming me for everything that goes wrong with my system, yet i tried to prove then wrong by trying to learn linux anyway, while most people would just quit it instead and start hating linux, its community, everything involved.

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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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