in a year from now they can.Steam console will only work if Valve are competitive with the pricing. If they can release a Steam console that's more powerful than Series X for the same price or slightly more then they can be competitive.
in a year from now they can.
in a year from now they can.
it depends.
previous steam consoles failed because they managed to offer the worst of both worlds.
the deck right now got people hyped up because even though he is not really THAT powerful in the end, it's plenty powerful for an handheld.
a steam home console would need to be plenty more powerful than ps5 and xbone while still keeping the price low, which is the hard part
How are the two related at all? What does making games have to do with running a store or making hardware?This shit is going to flop, hard. Valve has no interest in supporting their physical products beyond a couple years and seems to have a massive disinterest in designing games in general.
The only thing that will prevent the Deck from "taking off" will be Valve's almost inevitable inability to manufacture enough of these to keep up with the demand.Valve has a marketing problem, so I'm not even convinced that Steam Deck will take off like some are thinking.
You can connect if to a TV.Wouldn't it just be the deck that you could connect to your TV?
The only thing that will prevent the Deck from "taking off" will be Valve's almost inevitable inability to manufacture enough of these to keep up with the demand.
They seem to have contracted Quanta Computer Inc. for manufacture, if the boxes featured in the "Steam Deck devkits going out" blog post are anything to go by. Quanta being a manufacturer for all kinds of electronics, for example Macbooks. Valve might not be as low on Deck stock on release as the more realistic/pessimistic estimates might have had us thinking.The only thing that will prevent the Deck from "taking off" will be Valve's almost inevitable inability to manufacture enough of these to keep up with the demand.
Do we even know how many they are going to manufacture for launch? They could ship 50,000, and say it's in demand.
We know that an estimated amount of roughly 200K pieces or so in the first few hours since the preorders opened was enough to put people on MONTHS of queue waiting for their turn.They seem to have contracted Quanta Computer Inc. for manufacture, if the boxes featured in the "Steam Deck devkits going out" blog post are anything to go by. Quanta being a manufacturer for all kinds of electronics, for example Macbooks. Valve might not be as low on Deck stock on release as the more realistic/pessimistic estimates might have had us thinking.
They did say they're working to get more of them made. And a fair number of people, even from limited circles like these forums, have already been moved up in the queue. My guess is they had an existing contract for a certain number of consoles made, and based their queue estimates on such. And now that their estimates have been blown out of the water, they may try to strike some larger contracts to get more units produced faster. The chip shortage is certainly putting a damper on things, but this is a new chip, with no other products sharing the demand, so hopefully it's not all doom and gloom as far as increasing production.We know that an estimated amount of roughly 200K pieces or so in the first few hours since the preorders opened was enough to put people on MONTHS of queue waiting for their turn.
It doesn't exactly bode well for Newell's claimed goal to "sell millions".