How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story

The SteamDeck is my favorite purchase of last year.

Literally the best PC I've ever owned.

They deserve it just for their contributions to Proton/WINE/Linux. The Steam Deck might be my favorite console ever but I’m even more excited about the future and what Valve’s efforts will enable. One of the things that’s great about open source is that someone somewhere might build something on top of your work that you never expected. In 5 or 10 years, I would not be shocked if the work they’ve done on Proton ends up way bigger than games.

Seems pretty easy.

Step 1: direct the largest library/store of games ever

Step 2: create the best piece of gaming hardware ever

Step 3: dribble out pre-orders for a year to really get that slow hype train rolling

According to the logic of this video it costs Valve $0 to produce steam decks. Jeez, the Internet is so filled up with these unresearched, amateurish attempts at journalism.

Interesting, I assumed that it would flop or at best be a very niche product. It doesn't seem like a very interesting device to me. I don't see the appeal at all.

I guess it's nice to hear that it's so successful, considering how much it has done for linux gaming.

what's the battery life of these beasts?

Whenever someone talks about Steam Deck, I feel like I am in an alternate universe from my original one, because for some reason, I remember Steam Deck as a failed product attempt no one cares about lol, and now it is a big money maker, so yikes, in what universe am I now? Lmao