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Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam | Gaming On Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] portalsentinel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be fair, even if it was $, most Steam Decks costs around (or less) than one tenth of a triple A game's price. Selling hardware in this quantity is insanity.

Edit: 10 times. Not one tenth. Oops. I meant that they need to sell less than 1/10th in VOLUME to match the sum of a triple A game. And selling that much hardware is really impressive in my opinion.

[–] soulveil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you clarify, a steam deck is like 400 bucks and a game is like 60-70

[–] portalsentinel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

See the edit, I was pretty tired when writing the comment. Sorry for the confusion

[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess with all the MTX and DLC, some games might come ahead in cost, but that's definitely not the standard.....

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 1 year ago

He’s right if he’s talking about that fucking train simulator game with $4K of DLCs ;)

[–] BlahajEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think those are accounted for the Top Sellers list anyway

[–] tiwenty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you by chance confusing Steam Decks with Steam Links?

[–] portalsentinel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

OMFG I MEANT 10X THE PRICE, NOT ONE TENTH. sorry for the confusion 😅

The message was that the deck has to sell less than 1/10th as many "units" as a triple A game to match the price sum. So imagine hardware selling 1/10th that of a single software. Pretty impressive.