Microsoft: Steam Deck Did Not Need Call Of Duty To Succeed - Gameranx
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Microsoft has argued that the Steam Deck did not need Call of Duty to be successful, a claim that is easily proven by the Deck's success.
  • Neato@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    less than 2% of steam users bought a deck.

    Well seeing as there are a billion accounts and 120M active users, that’s a LOT of decks sold. Numbers online saying 1.2M decks sold which is a lot for a niche PC handheld. There’s already copycats.

      • Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        I think suggesting that Valve need any given game (CoD) or even genre (“games like CoD”) to remain successful is silly at best. Of course Steam, the Steam Deck, and as a result Valve are only successful or even exist at all because of video game studios and publishers. But Call of Duty specifically? Nah man, it’s a blip on the radar for Steam.

        • dlove67@feddit.nl
          2·
          1 year ago

          Valve are only successful or even exist at all

          Only as successful as they currently are.

          They would have still been successful based on their games, I think, and without steam to “distract” them, they might have counted to 3 by now.

      • dlove67@feddit.nl
        3·
        1 year ago

        The deck is only successful because Valve is already successful enough to take the first loss on a console

        This may be true(and I wouldn’t doubt it being the case, at least on the $399 model) but it’s pure speculation on your part.