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During a conference made by KDE at the Akademy 2022 event, titled "Full Steam Ahead: KDE's journey on the Steam Deck", David Edmundson, KDE's spokesperson during the event, announced that the Steam Deck console by Valve has shipped over one million units as of the start of October, 2022.

KDE is a free software community that provides a variety of open source software on many Linux distributions, which the Steam Deck's operating system, SteamOS, is based on. One of these softwares is the actual desktop environment itself, Plasma, alongside other programs, tools and apps used within the very same operating system, like Dolphin (KDE's file manager), KWrite or Kate (a programming text editor), and many others.

In the event, Edmundson goes through many details of their work together with Valve, and what users can expect in the near future in terms of KDE's side of things for the Steam Deck.

 

[Hayato213]

A shame that scalpers are selling them for extremely high prices.

Wait time is a lot shorter than what it was a year ago.

 

[Xzi]

A shame that scalpers are selling them for extremely high prices.

I mean that's the entire point of scalping. I can't imagine there's that much demand for scalped Steam Decks though, queue time is like a month or less and they're sure to open up sales to more countries early next year.

 

[HellGhast]

A shame that scalpers are selling them for extremely high prices.

Wait time is a lot shorter than what it was a year ago.

Dude called Mc Kuc on YouTube says he got his after only 2days on wait list, am jealous.


BTW that guy is always unboxing Ps5's on every video, maybe he's well connected.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I mean that's the entire point of scalping. I can't imagine there's that much demand for scalped Steam Decks though, queue time is like a month or less and they're sure to open up sales to more countries early next year.

this... for half dozen places on earth... Huge gaming markets like Latin America, India and China are too disgusting for Newell's taste that he do not even want their money.

(importing + scalping would cost more than the more powerful ayaneo 2, so makes no sense, unless for those who are in the hurry)

 

[Hayato213]

Dude called Mc Kuc on YouTube says he got his after only 2days on wait list, am jealous.


BTW that guy is always unboxing Ps5's on every video, maybe he's well connected.

Production was bump up this summer, so people got push ahead of their time slot, I was Originally going to get my around this time, got bump up a quarter.

 

[HellGhast]

Production was bump up this summer, so people got push ahead of their time slot, I was Originally going to get my around this time, got bump up a quarter.

Good 'ol crypto crash has been a boon to gamers, like over here there's so many Ps5's that gaming shops have like over 10 Ps5's displayed on the windows, contrasted to only Dec last year they had such long Ps5 wait lists that they were no longer accepting new entries to the list.

 

[Hayato213]

Good 'ol crypto crash has been a boon to gamers, like over here there's so many Ps5's that gaming shops have like over 10 Ps5's displayed on the windows, contrasted to only Dec last year they had such long Ps5 wait lists that they were no longer accepting new entries to the list.

Still hard to get one in Europe than in the US.

 

[KeeperCP1]

This thing won't be mine. I will get a superior gaming laptop that costs like 550-660€ and y'all be perished by the power of the GTX 1650.

 

[kimitoboku101]

still no in japan

 

[GBADWB]

its just an eventuality given Valve outright went to Tokyo Game Show to advertise the steamdeck and accumulated a lot of preorders according to themselves.

 

[eriol33]

I really want to order one but I am afraid it will collect dusts as I don’t play games that often ahymore

 

[anhminh]

I will just wait for Deck Lite. That thing is just too big and clunky for a handheld.

 

[Working_Goose]

I will just wait for Deck Lite. That thing is just too big and clunky for a handheld.

Did you already play with a Steamdeck?

Because the size is very nice and its not clunky at all.
I play with it almost everytime in the Metro for like 30 minutes

 

[urbanman2004]

Def snagging the next release version of the Steam Deck. All you early adopters can be the guinea pigs

 

[smf]

I mean that's the entire point of scalping. I can't imagine there's that much demand for scalped Steam Decks though, queue time is like a month or less and they're sure to open up sales to more countries early next year.

It will be interesting how many were scalped though. For example, if they sold a million units to scalpers then that doesn't do anything for steam or linux.

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Def snagging the next release version of the Steam Deck. All you early adopters can be the guinea pigs

They did a great job of creating FOMO by implying they weren't going to be making them for very long.

I held off ordering too, will be interesting whether that was the right option or not.

 

[Xzi]

It will be interesting how many were scalped though. For example, if they sold a million units to scalpers then that doesn't do anything for steam or linux.

Scalpers would've had very little success with the reservation system as opposed to first come first serve, as with the PS5. Additionally, Steam Deck is more of a niche product that would be considered extremely successful even with only ten million lifetime sales, so there's not really enough demand for scalpers to take advantage of.

 

[KingVamp]

Big improvement from the Steam Machine.

 

[simsimsim]

i'm well aware that they can sell the Deck at loss since they'll get their money back with softwares/games

how does that work? Since presumably you can play the games from your own steam library without paying extra, technically Valve isn't making any extra money with many owners of Steam Deck. Like I would never buy any game specifically just for the Deck, so wouldn't most game sales not techinically associated with Steam Deck, but rather a regular customer would have bought with or without the Deck?

 

[langston]

Mine gets here Thursday but I'll have to wait till Xmas to play it.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

Like I would never buy any game specifically just for the Deck

You are in the minority of Deck owners then. Just check out /r/SteamDeck alone.