>>556094
>Yet their pocket books and Win's sell regardless, it doesn't matter if they're niche if they've still got customers
When you say success and don't clarify the degree, that's relevant for expectations and parameters.
GPD can be said to be operating under very modest definitions of success under a very specific set of circumstances, this is not comparable to a major platform holder, and the expectations should not be kept to the absurdly high, almost delusional standards one sees in these kinds of threads.
If anyone thinks the Deck will sell over 10 million, they are literally delusional.
Hell, even 3 million would be an absurdly high amount of devices for Valve to have sold. 500K to 1 million is far more likely.
>They'd probalby sell more if Sony wheren't insufferable picky faggots and would just let game devs make games for them without being impeded by censorship and other bullshit.
Yes, Sony is cancer.
>That depends
For rare edge cases maybe, generally speaking the parts manufacturers make their money based on the fact that they overcharge for the individual pieces. Most businesses do this purposefully.
>Why are you against a Vita 2.0 running a Linux Desktop? That just doubles the possibilities of the Vita. Do you not like the idea of being comfy in bed playing Shadow of Colossus while also shitposting on 8Moe? Sounds nice Sony should do it and give up on their shitty PS5 gimmick.
Except this thing isn't the Vita 2.0 and anyone claiming otherwise is retarded.
This is some kind of hulking monstrosity. Its build quality is poor, its ergonomics are positively shit, its oversized, its overweight, its overpriced (not for a computer admittedly, but for a handheld), its screen is mediocre, its got no physical games and the platform holder has no interest in making any good native games anymore, and its ability to pirate is dubious and that's the only way I would run something that literally has a DRM store built into it. Its emulation ability seems somewhat decent, I'll give it that, but that's the only thing of value I see in this thing. It also supports Valve, which I view as a very negative and dangerous force on the PC gaming market. Yes, they're not as bad as Origin, Epic, and whatever other stores are shit, but they're still a net negative as they are, and they
will get worse without question as their decline over the past years have shown.
How are you gonna "play in bed" with a device like this, have you taken a look at it? You need a surface to play it on essentially, and its battery life for non-indie games is piss-poor so you'll need to charge it for any session longer than 2-3 hours.
>What's not to like about the Deck? It will allow people to play the games they already own on the go as apposed to what other consoles do where you have to buy several copies of the same game. The Deck will be a huge success anon and I'm not saying that as some deluded famboy because Valve has done plenty of retarded shit in the past rather this is a unique situation where Valve has struck gold and managed not to fuck it up this time by giving the customer exactly what they want, a device that they truly own, can fix, and modify to their hearts content without breathing down their necks for doing so like other companies do, plus it plays vidya.
<games on Steam
<"own"
good joke anon.
>buy copies
Maybe that's the fundamental difference here.
I'd only buy physical games if I do buy games, or DRM-free games if they're cheap, I'd always pirate otherwise if I can.
>The Deck will be a huge success
No, it won't be.
They already chose a horrible time to release it. On an objective level, they have fucked up so many aspects of the release that it is guaranteed to be modest at best. Valve is also likely selling this at a loss. I'm not gonna say you're a Valve fanboy, but you definitely don't know anything about how successful standardized gaming hardware releases are done. Valve has basically put a hard-limit on how successful the Deck can be for the foreseeable future.
What Valve
can do is, because of the absurd amount of capital they have at their disposal, is take financial hits from the Deck's release (and their other failed hardware endeavours) and keep trying in spite of it until they finally do make some headway, but the Deck, practically speaking, is the first real attempt to make a device like this available to the public at large.
Have you noticed the only people who are doing YT videos on the Deck are Linus, who is a "new tech" shill, some minor tech reviewer e-celeb who recently became obsessed with the Deck, and like 3 loonix autism channels, and that's it?
Its over a month into the release of a supposedly hyped new product, and nobody's fucking talking about this thing besides those channels.
Almost like nobody has this thing in their hands, and their interest for the device's novelty is fading rapidly (as one can see if one actually looks in the comments sections of the few Deck vids from people outside of the circle of autism/shilling)