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stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 days agoIt probably won’t whoop Linux, but if it can at least get the performance closer, we could have an excitingly competitive handheld OS market.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
You are sitting here saying finally a competitive os market but the competition has pretty much just ended.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
They would both have different strengths, so handheld Windows will never snuff out SteamOS when it has a pretty good head start already. Not to mention that any windows handheld will be more expensive than a SteamOS one unless Microsoft is willing to give them away for free.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
SteamOS has had a good start but its not a headstart. Its still a minority OS in the handheld space. Now that you can get a slick UI with good preformance, 100% software compatibility, im failing to see the advantages that will draw windows users onto steam.
Im a linux users so I place a lot of value in the freedom of the ecosystem but most non linux users dont think about that or care. SteamOS needed this win to convince people to leave the microsoft ecosystem and now microsoft has closed the gap.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Steam Deck sold about 3.7 million units, while the handheld PCs have sold around 6 million since the Steam Deck was launched. I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound like a minority to me unless you’re counting the Switch, as well.
However, neither this Xbox handheld and the Steam Deck will be able to even compare to the volume being sold by Nintendo, so what’s the point of even including it in this comparison? We might as well include Android gaming in that comparison, then, which should dwarf everything else by comparison.