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[–] Lonnie123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I think the market for "I will also use this as a laptop" is so small that the vast majority of people wont factor that in, and for the 19 people that will genuinely use this as a traveling computer it will be great for them. But by and large I think 90% of people that wanted a "switch but for my PC games" already jumped on the steamdeck backwagon and there just arent that many more sales to pick up from that market segment

[–] _MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, some will want to dock it as well and use it as a computer with a keyboard and mouse. I think that's a major use.

[–] Lonnie123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its a major use, but only for a niche number of people. I think theres Very, very, very few people that would get this that dont already have a main computer and/or a laptop, so the usage of this as a portable computer, while very cool and interesting, is not going to be what millions of people are doing

[–] Lowbird 1 points 1 year ago

And that market already does essentially the same thing (sans gaming) with tablet + keyboard stand/case and portable mouse.

And both a tablet set up like that and the steamdeck, depending on use case, is significantly cheaper.