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Then somebody else will? Buddy, you think the only other two console makers aren’t doing the exact same thing? Hell, Nintendo is worse than Sony on game and game store control. No game console makers allow for third party app stores. The closest you’re getting is buying a PC.
Nah man modern consoles are just gimped pcs. There are thousands of manufacturers and hardware developers that would love this. You can already see this happen in saturated and captured market we have today with Asus Lenovo and Nvidia making their own handheld consoles.
You skipped over the biggest handheld PC maker of all. Valve with Steam Deck.
But once again, all of those are PC’s. They’re not game consoles and thus none of them restrict what you can put on them. You’ll also notice that Steam Deck is the only one that has good gaming capabilities with a price around $500. You know why? They own Steam and even though you aren’t forced to do it. Most PC gamers buy their games through Steam. So Valve didn’t go into the handheld market to make a bunch of money selling hand held systems. They did it to make money on game sales, just like a console maker. That’s why there’s ten fold more Steam Decks that have been sold vs all the other handheld combined. Because all the other ones that give a good gaming experience are hundreds more dollars, because those makers like Nvidia, Asus, and Lenovo actually do have to make their profits off the hardware sale.
Then somebody else will? Buddy, you think the only other two console makers aren’t doing the exact same thing? Hell, Nintendo is worse than Sony on game and game store control. No game console makers allow for third party app stores. The closest you’re getting is buying a PC.
Nah man modern consoles are just gimped pcs. There are thousands of manufacturers and hardware developers that would love this. You can already see this happen in saturated and captured market we have today with Asus Lenovo and Nvidia making their own handheld consoles.
You skipped over the biggest handheld PC maker of all. Valve with Steam Deck.
But once again, all of those are PC’s. They’re not game consoles and thus none of them restrict what you can put on them. You’ll also notice that Steam Deck is the only one that has good gaming capabilities with a price around $500. You know why? They own Steam and even though you aren’t forced to do it. Most PC gamers buy their games through Steam. So Valve didn’t go into the handheld market to make a bunch of money selling hand held systems. They did it to make money on game sales, just like a console maker. That’s why there’s ten fold more Steam Decks that have been sold vs all the other handheld combined. Because all the other ones that give a good gaming experience are hundreds more dollars, because those makers like Nvidia, Asus, and Lenovo actually do have to make their profits off the hardware sale.
Nah man I think the market here is way too big to not win if there’s a vacuum.
What vacuum? Almost all games are cross platform. Portable and non portable is covered. Where’s a vacuum?