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Oh my god the child journalist can’t even get the successes of console generations right and I’m supposed to care about his analysis?
“Eventually”? It paid off handsomely with the Wii in 2006, a full decade before the Switch. Literally Nintendo’s first big experiment with console hardware since the Virtual Boy in 1995 was a runaway success.
The Wii sold 101 million units, the Xbox 360 sold 84 million (and eventually copied the Wii with the Kinect) and the PS3 sold 87.4 million.
It took me a whole minute to find this information and the journalist didn’t even bother.
Also don’t just throw this out and not explain it.
What? ~~Do you mean Steam Link? Wasn’t really a console, was it? The Deck is closer to a console and it certainly hasn’t been a “blunder.”~~ Oh, the earlier Steam Machine?!
Do you know anything about what you’re writing?
I think they are talking about the first steam machine from 2014 not the link
Thank you! I genuinely was like “help me out here journalist, explain yourself”