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Steam Hardware

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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Switch is none of those things and yet still manages to sell 100x more units.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orange juice is nothing like apple juice, and yet both still sell

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago

And yet one sells 100x more than the other.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The switch has brand recognition, loyalty from decades ago, and ease of use (for the less tech savvy).

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -5 points 1 year ago

Steam has all of those as well.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has exclusives iirc, steam deck "just" has the rest.

The switch also has coop multiplayer and a few other things going for it as well.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Switch is more portable and also easier to dock.