Steam Deck Drops To Lowest Global Ranking Since 2022 Following Nintendo Switch 2 Announcement

Valve's Steam Deck has dropped to its lowest global ranking since its launch in 2022 following the announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2.

[anast]

People want a game to work when they buy it, not worry if the game is verified or not. It turned out not be a very good product and it shows. Once something else comes out it drops to the bottom of list.

[Inverno]

What're you talking about? Practically every game at this point works on the thing and in true console fashion. Besides it being weak hardware for most modern games, it has absolutely no issue running games from before it released and plenty after it's release. 30 years worth of PC games in the palm of your hands and old windows games, that modern windows can't even run, run no problem with a bit of Linux magic.

[anast]

"Practically every game at this point works on the thing and in true console fashion."

This is false.

"30 years worth of PC games"

Those game are extremely old and can work on anything.

[Rockstar]

anast talking about things he clearly doesn't know anything about...

Every game I've played on Steam works on the deck verified or not. Do some of the games require you to change an option here or there to work? Yes, but PC is the same. Are consoles easier to use? Yes.
But that doesn't mean PC's and Steam Decks/Handhelds aren't "a very good product"

[anast]

They have three levels fo verification for a reason. Prove to me they don't.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

The majority of games work though, even the ones that aren't Steam Deck verified, I haven't had many that refuse to start or have significant issues during game play. The Steam Deck even plays some games that my PC refuses to even start because they're older games that aren't supported on Windows 10/11.

[Rockstar]

Pretending for a second that a game doesn't work on my Steam Deck, that's on me. When you buy a game on Steam you can scroll down and see if it's Steam Deck verified and if it's not verified it clearly spells out why it's not verified and 95% of the time it's because text is hard to read or some other small issue. So again, there's nothing to worry about because you know everything you need to know BEFORE you buy it.

You're complaining about a non issue.

[anast]

"if it's not verified"

This. The game doesn't work as intended. Pay all that money and say it still has issues.

[Rockstar]

Only you would know before you bought it that it had issues and you would know what they are. Armed with that information you could choose not to buy it.

I'm not sure where you're going here...

[Miacosa]

This thing gets a lot of publicity but sales seem low when compared to traditional PC and console sales which are multiple million sellers. Last counts had it selling worse than the Wii-U but then it's additive for Steam so they also don't need it to be a high-volume product.

[Neonridr]

none of these handheld PCs are going to sell in any large volumes. Steam Deck will still end up going on to sell the best when compared to the ROG Ally, Ayaneo's, etc.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Handheld PCs are pretty expensive, maybe people are choosing Laptops for the added value of productivity? Technically, you could do that on a handheld PC, but a Laptop is less fuss if you want productivity with some light gaming on the side.

I'm pretty happy with my Steam Deck though, I don't have very many complaints.

[FlintGREY]

My only issue with the steamdeck is how big and ugly it is. I'd love to buy a much slimmer, better looking version if they made one