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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?
Original steam machine came out in 2015. This is why big picture mode was introduced. People liked them but they werent a big seller, and was generally considered a flop. Apparently enough of a flop that some people don't remember it.
I’d like to point out, the “Original Steam Machine” does not exist. Valve never made hardware, they simply released an OS and let other companies release hardware. This IMHO is why the original attempt was doomed to fail from the get go; dozens of hardware configurations each with slightly different spec and driver setups.