Can’t say anything bad about this. They made a good product that people want, it doesn’t have a walled garden, and it’s supporting the Linux community at the same time.
I hope they continue to keep hold of the values that gave them this success.
Came here to say this. They earned their success. Hopefully their current values remain.
They likely will until Gabe either sells his shares or someone else inherits them and sells them. (Though maybe whoever inherits his shares might continue the legacy, who knows). At that point Valve will probably either get acquired or go public, and become another shitty tech company, beholden to quarterly growth above all else.
Valve is a great example of a private company not becoming another cog in the machine, but that probably won’t last forever
I really like Valve. They have done a few things that really annoyed me (usually owing to their refusal to sell stuff outside of the US)… But you can’t argue with their excellent support of the community and loyalty to their customer base.
I’m seriously considering giving up my gaming desktop in a year or two and switch to a Steam Deck instead of building a new battlestation. I’ll likely keep my desk and get a docking station for it.
The fact that it’s open and let me run games outside of Steam (I have many games bought on GOG) is a major selling point. Plus almost all of the apps I rely on are available in Flatpak format, which should work great when I’m not gaming.
I can see that. In a way, it’s like a reimagining of an ultra-portable gaming netbook.
Does anyone wanna buy my 1tb standard deck so I can get a shiny oled one 😭
Nice. Sort of sets a low end standardized hardware baseline companies can try to get working knowing there’s that many units out there. Even if it doesn’t end up running great on the Steam Deck some attempts at optimization for it could help better hardware.
They’re not selling the OLED version yet, so I have to assume this is either cumulative to this point, and/or as a result of the massive price drop for the LCD version.
I think the headline is ambiguously worded. My interpretation is that, after they announced the OLED version, they also confirmed that Steam Deck sales to date amount to “multiple millions.” I highly doubt they’ve sold multiple millions since the announcement.
Are they talking existing sales, or sales after the announcement? If this is just post-announcement, holy fucking shit
