Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming
How big is the handheld PC gaming industry?
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handheld pc gaming
Sounds impressive until you see the qualifier
pc
Not that impressive.
Compare it to the whole handheld gaming market!
The whole handheld gaming market is pretty small. There's the Switch which outsold the last couple gens of Xboxes and PlayStations. Good luck beating that. Besides that you have smartphones which just about everyone owns and only a handful of brands being especially popular. Then you have dedicated Android having handhelds and handheld emulation machines which are extremely niche.
So either you're looking at extremely popular and widely owned handheld devices with extensive histories and customer loyalty or extremely niche devices. Not really a great comparison.
the whole handheld gaming market is pretty small
Wat!
Sourced from wikipedia: switch has sold over 150 million units.
150 million
small
Small as in not a lot of competitors...
Its no different to the console market. Essentially a duopoly
If you mean the switch, then it has been thoroughly squashed. If you mean phones, well I think we can agree they are not really competing for the same customers, and if you think they do, most people are buying phones for reasons other than gaming. So you'd need a way to section the market for "gaming phones" (yes, that's a thing).
Hahaha You are delusional. Switch has sold over 150million units.
Yes, it squashes the steam deck, that's what I said.