• Wooki@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    handheld pc gaming

    Sounds impressive until you see the qualifier

    pc

    Not that impressive.

    Compare it to the whole handheld gaming market!

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      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.

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        9 hours ago

        the whole handheld gaming market is pretty small

        Wat!

        Sourced from wikipedia: switch has sold over 150 million units.

        150 million

        small

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      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).