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Just out of curiosity but how many users have the deck? Aren't they already ~10M?
Well if you're counting, I've got one.
So one person then
Two, with me
So at least three
Now Epic should feel really pressure to support Linux.
No, definitely not but getting there! Last year despite slow production ramp up, about one million were sold. Source: a SteamOS developer on a KDE conference in autumn.
This year a financial analyst company predicted an additional two million until the end of this year but that was before the OLED announcement. Valve then recently said "millions". So I guess 3 million may be a somewhat conservative estimate now that the OLED model is out. 4 million if we're generous. It'll take a while until 10 million are reached, if they'll be reached at all. My memory is a bit foggy but I think Valve people said that the Steam Deck was intended to launch earlier but the Covid semiconductor crisis delayed the announcement. My guess is that at least a Steam Deck Lite will be announced first but the overall performance will stay about the same, so that could drive sales a bit before the eventual successor comes out.
It's not about Deck alone. Supporting Deck, means supporting all Linux machines and everyone else with controller.
They already have controller support. They just don't want to make their anti cheat work on Linux or work with steam to make it work with proton.
That somehow makes it even worse.