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Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by can@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who've opted in as a sample. It's anything but representative of all 154 million active users, meaning the statistic above isn't an absolute.

Does the author know how *survey sample sizes work?

Do I?

Is it because it's opt in or opt out?

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[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

The controller was just an example but whether it’s part of steamos or built into the linux kernel isn’t really relevant as what I was trying to say is that valve has a vested interest in making sure it’s there and maintained, as opposed to your typical windows gaming pc and peripherals which do not have that guarantee as they are sold with an expectation that the users will be running windows.