Why did it fail?

Why did it fail?

Niche product.

The PSP didn't fail, it definitely had an edge over the DS when it came to graphics and got 5 iterations. The Vita's proprietary memory card is what killed it.

It's a mail-order UMPC you fucking dope what kind of question is "why did it fail", every Anon Babble console warrior that thinks of the Steam Deck in terms of "Nintendo Switch" should be lined up against a wall and blindfolded (what happens next may surprise you!)

The Game Gear died because it was a clunky piece of shit with no system sellers on it
The PSP was a success
The PSVita failed because it was too expensive when it was new and had no games other than some niche JRPGs
The Steam Deck is at least a mild success

Careful. Steam Dickfags get bad mad when you post this

Anyone into PC gaming enough to know what a steam deck is already has a PC that runs games better than a steam deck can. It's a redundant device

sees video games

thinks of penis

Because there's no place in the market for handheld gaming systems since the iPhone came out but Nips are a bunch of tendie cultists that buy their Handhelds regardless and fool competitors into believing that making a handheld in the current market could be profitable.

The Steam Deck is at least a mild success

The PSVita failed

The Vita sold 15 million units and the Steam Deck has sold at best 4 million.

The PSP is nothing short of a marvel in my opinions. Hardly a failure.

why does it always have to be A vs B? no wonder trannys fucking ruin everything you cunts have no idea what is going on.

Exclusives are pretty much the only reason anyone buys Nintendo consoles still.
The steam deck is competing against smartphones, tablets and laptops.

Here comes the Deckcels

It's you deckfags that celebrate the 'ick on 'eck shit meme, not me

As long you market your device as "X" killer you silently admit that "X" is superior.

Tried to love steamdeck I really did. But it's an underpowered peace of american shit, hardware qc is so fucking bad that it can't even lie flat on a table.

no advertising

not sold at retail

It didn’t fail, Valve isn’t in the same market, OP posted a strawman.

I think it's like, their only way to get attention or interaction. Like you have to do something you know is wrong in order for strangers to notice you for a few seconds. This is important to them.

I feel unreasonable hatred boiling inside my heart. A wish to hurt myself and the closest to me.
Deck wasn't positioned as a switch killer by anyone who isn't mentally ill. Sadly, valve fanbase tends to contain quite a few of those. Another example, how they cried about OW being a tf2 killer, even though, it was never positioned as such.
But despite all of that, it does not in any capacity take away from the quality of the products, be it tf2 or deck.
Also, psp/vita and game gear didn't fail. Not reaching immense popularity of nintendo products != failing.

Too bulky compared to the switch 1
Too expensive compared to the switch 1
Barely any more powerful than the switch 1
Linux OS so it doesn't run half of pc games
Too weak compared to the switch 2
Tries to appeal to pc gamers but only has 800p and runs at sub 30fps on anything with graphics above the switch 1
linux vegans begging and console warring as usual ruined the little reputation it had

They never learn, do they?

Because the Steam Deck was a collaboration with Nintendo and Yuzu to do guerilla marketing for the Switch.
Obviously.
When parents and their kids go to the store, they're not going to see the Steam Deck anywhere, but when they look at brainrot algorithmslop and what their kids are talking about they're going to see emulated Switch games on something that looks a lot like a Switch.
Remember, these are the same retards that thought the Wii U was a Wii add-on.

That's how I see it as well.

I've played exclusively on PC for a long time and I've never understood the appeal of hand-held gaming. It wouldn't surprise me of a of other PC gamers had a similar perspective. After all, we are willing to haul our entire PC to another location just to LAN if needed. Probably not the most sensible way to go about things, but it is what it is.

Game Gear had color and a backlit screen, but that just made it a huge battery drain, and also had no system sellers

PSP was a success and did well for itself, it just didn't reach the astronomical numbers the DS did

Vita had those proprietary memory cards, and had to deal with mobile phone gaming really starting to take off

Deck is mostly a niche product for those that just want to play their Steam library on the go

Better question, why did the ngage not beat the gba? Nobody understands true genius.

retard is so obsessed with starting shit that he is thoroughly unaware of pixel density and just goes "smaller number worse ME WIN"

Must be a day that ends in Y on Anon Babble

Do you have a switch 2?
What FPS does it run cyberpunk at and at what resolution? Is it using frame gen or not?

No advertisement and consumers and uninformed. You could emulate the Switch from the first month of its existence and played every single one of its game for free and in higher quality but most people who buy products are dumb. When I told my coworker about emulation he got pissed he wasted so much money on Switch games lol

look at the deck's embarrassing resolution, the muddy textures, the blurry mess it is
it's completely erasing the textures on the jacket and you can only notice them on the switch 2
an image speaks more than a thousand words so no amount of written cope can change the truth, modern games look and run like shit on the steam deck, and they are objectively better on the switch 2

Bull fucking shit, child. Anyone who owned a Vita loved it. Sony's proprietary shit was what killed Vita.

Considering it can't exceed 10w in handheld I'd imagine it would be quite bad, in docked it'll be upscaled to shit, all specs point to it being around PS4 level with a heavy reliance on DLSS.

Anyone who owned a Vita loved it.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sony's proprietary shit was what killed Vita.

Yes, which is why people like the Steam Deck so much. It's just a PC. You can play literally anything on it. Yet at the same time, it still Just Werks.

runs and looks better than the deck
that's all you need to know, claim it doesn't count and cope all you want. Nintendo mogged the deck

It killed the switch. Only nintendo fanboys continue using the switch instead of the steam deck.

the steam deck's market niche is being the ultimate nintendo piracy device

Anyone who owned a Vita loved it

literally every single person I met who had a vita sold it within a few years

No games, as always.

ultimate anything

800p screen in 2022

lol, lmao even

It killed the switch.

no games

It's a portable PC you retard, its catalog is infinitely larger than the switch or any proprietary handheld

No exclusives, emulation is gay

Same boat as the Game Gear

tried to outdo Nintendo with a backlit screen

had no memorable games

big battery drain

sold even worse than GG

And the thing was fucking huge. Some say the Switch is too bulky, but the Lynx is even bigger.

My fucking steam library is larger than the total library of those other three consoles.

Game Gear had some memorable games. Lynx had nothing.

baby who buy 90 switch games instead of adult chad who emulate every single nintendo games

How are you enjoying Nintendo new DEI directives, cuck?

Game Gear

Blurry screen, extremely short battery life, deeply expensive

PSP

UMD spec made the system really unstable and unsuited to gaming, prone to hardware failure

Vita

Too expensive and UX is bloated, no good exclusives. That said, while it 100% lost to the 3DS it did pretty well.

Steam Deck

Entirely different use case, very expensive, a little clunky to use

It mostly comes down to price and UX

The real issue with the GG was that its battery life was really very bad.

I remember Kung Food. And it had a pretty good version of Chip's Challenge.

PC has tons of exclusives you retard

emulation is gay

0/10 stale tendie bait

Switch is for people who want to just want to play some games
'eck is for people who have games as a hobby

Simple as

The funniest part is that the Gameboy Color came out 7 years after the Game Gear. So Sega basically had the "color handheld" market for a good ammount of time and STILL lost.

And I think it got decent ports of Ninja Gaiden.

steam deck vs switch

This was the most forced rivalry known to man
Who the fuck decided to pit a console released in 2017 against a console released in 2022?

Are you retarded?

runs and looks better than the deck

yet you have nothing to base this on since you own neither
you're one of those suckers that believes all the marketing pushed onto you, the super SSD and 8k native resolutions of the playstation, the gazillion teraflops of the xbox etc.
you don't even understand what drives performance, you're completely illiterate on what hardware the switch 2 or the deck includes
as a matter of fact, you're the perfect consumer for the console market, a complete and utter retard that gets spoonfed all their ideas and opinions
keep propping up your favorite brand, drone

But the steam deck isn't a console which only makes it a dumber comparison

Steam deck wasn't even meant to compete with the switch in the first place
It's a handheld PC, not a portable console

there isn't a single person on earth that thought a linux laptop with a controller attached would be a "switch killer" it was always designed to be an enthusiast product and nothing.

they tried to make a product for adults but only children play games in public

deck is a handheld PC running a linux OS
it's not locked into its own ecosystem of games, it's why people emulate various console games on it, because they can

imagine being a console shitter with no steam library

tl;dr
the footage already destroyed your narrative

Why was there so many anime games on the vita I dont mind just wondering where they went

killing soulless tendoids who are indoctrinated one one platform

Why bother?
It's destined to fail.

you don't own the console, you have no live experience of what you're talking about, your narrative never had a leg to stand on, you are a puppet regurgitating what the marketers push to you
and you do it for absolutely free

you don't own the console

already preordered tho, you can keep coping and ignoring the footage proving how obliterated your butthole is

Deck is easily the best vidya device I've ever bought. Valve sees it as a huge success as do all the other companies following suit, but I don't care about that, it gets WAY more games, support and features than any console does despite any sales numbers.

Tendies coping, working against their own self-interest and sucking fat corpo cock as always. Embarrassing.

you never answered the questions about framegen, native/upscaled resolutions or fps
you're nothing but a mouthpiece wasting their life trying to agitate random people on the internet, what a sad life

tl;dr looks and runs better on the switch, digging for excuses won't change that

Also on pc (emulated)

mario should have trans flag pin to be accurate

nooo they're censoring my softcore porn in in children's games

It didn't
Beating Nintendo isn't the goal

The Steam Deck didn't fail. It's pretty good actually. I'm getting a Switch 2 though instead. It's OK, let Steam Deck users be happy with their product. We don't care about them.

it's interesting that every single one of these failed for the same exact reason, which is that instead of designing the games and hardware to work well as a handheld, they instead chased the "these are REAL console / PC games in the palm of your hand!" trend which always failed because it was the worst of both worlds
handhelds deliver an objectively inferior experience for most games for a million different reasons. it's fine only as an optional thing for niche situations, which is exactly why the Switch was so successful

I imagine "continuing to exist" is the goal, but they also failed at that

And tranny shit your children's games.

Better question is why do people who like Apple shit and people who like Nintendo shit think and act the exact same? The PSP and the Steam Deck are not failures - i would argue they are leader products, but just like how an Apple fag will claim the mac laptop to be best, just so will a Nintendoid claim that the Switch is the same.

seeing less of that fugly artstyle

I fail to see the issue

*sells per year what the switch 2 will sell in it's entire lifetime on a bad year, and completely mogs it on a good year*

Horizontal handhelds was a mistake

Niche product, i still really enjoy mine tho steam world hiest 2 is fun

Better question is why do people who like Apple shit and people who like Nintendo shit think and act the exact same

They're both massive, technologically illiterate battered wife fanboys. These corporations treat them like crap, but they've been indoctrinated into believing that somehow makes them anything more than useful idiots (ie why they like throwing around insults like poorfag while they get fleeced)

Why did it fail?

My real question is how some companies from the past managed to lose this hollowing: for example: Sony used to read the Apple book of how to make cultists like a jew working for the Federal Reserve reads the Talmud, yet Sony somehow managed to lose like ... all of its product following. Sony basically makes nothing that has any hype today and its sales come from services or some normie exploiting shit idk...
I get how some companies can start a cult following but how do some of them lose it is probably the better question. Star Wars also used to have cult following.... WoW also used to have cult following... LoL also used to have cult following... Maybe the sheeple are awakening

Who plays games on an iphone?

Say only 1 in 10 iphone users play games on their phones.
That's still more than people actively playing games than people that own the Switch.

gaming while reclining on a sofa or bed

You can already do that with a normal PC.
The benefits of the 'eck are playing on the shitter or at the park.

Retard

did the PSP really fail if they gave it a sequel?

It's going to take a lot more for tendies to lose their programming, they are particularly brainwashed

Nintendo may be like Sony in 10 years where their main income is from services and almost noone is hyped about their new shit. Nintendo also is walking that path - they have a fucking button you have to pay for... sooner or later it will be all ransomware services that are their main bread and butter.

idc if it didn't beat the DS in sales. PSP was the best handheld of all time.

Anyone into PC gaming enough to know what a steam deck is already has a PC that runs games better than a steam deck can. It's a redundant device

being able to stream games from my PC to a wireless device i can use anywhere at home is fucking mint

Just stop posting, youre fucking embarrassing

nin-toddler handhelds

You can't replace littlec Jimmy's favorite toy when you're targeting another audience.

I'm just doing the same exact thing as the OP.

But none of the shit you're posting makes any sense. Just stop.

Iphones are the device with gaming that sells the most in the world, at the point roughly half of the kids don't even know how to use keyboards or joysticks because they only play on phones.
The switch is a niche

The 'eck wasn't made with the intention of competing with the switch but as an incentive for developers to target linux as a platform.

the funniest thing is that niggas like me consider putting Windows on the 'eck but Volvo did some good progress for the penguin lovers.

Didn't the PSP sell like 80M units or something? Compare it to any system that ISN'T the PS2, Switch, or DS and it's a massive success.

The DS preceded the iPhone by 3 years

fuck that i want steamOS on my PC
windows is fucking trash

Deck makes Switch absolutely redundant.

...unless you want to play Kirby at more than 10fps, which most of us do.

300 dollars for 30 fps and 1 game

lol, besides it runs at 60 on my PC

Why did it fail?

I don't think Valve ever made any claims that the Steamdeck would be a Switch killer. I think even GabeN knows better than that. But I do think that for Valve, the Steamdeck was a success. In many ways.

The Game Gear died because it was a clunky piece of shit with no system sellers on it

It was a portable master System with a few hardware enhancements. But suffered from horrible battery life. It didn't have much in the way of exclusives because it shared a lot of its' library with the Sega master System.

The PSP was a success

The hardware was a success. But it was also pirate city.

The PSVita failed because it was too expensive when it was new and had no games other than some niche JRPGs

Yeah. I would say this is pretty close.

what kind of faggot wants to play kirby in 2025

grow up

Your loss, man. Forgotten Land was great.

Consoleniggers are retarded, Linuxbros and Windowgrunts are superior

Can literally play every singly game that's ever been released

Lmao, can you do this, Mr. Exclusives?

playing in the park

only if you want everyone to know how much of a sexless chud you are

Just stream from your pc using vr.

It was comfy enough, and had great sound
The arcade ports (like Ninja Gaiden and Rygar) and certain other games were vastly superior. I had it, the GG, and GB (GBC wasn't a thing at that time) and it was my favorite system. Wall plug was essential though, they were all tough on batteries at that time.

ROG Ally be like...

that makes games run worse plus its often a lot less comfy having to wear a vr headset

also you can only go within wherever your base stations are unless you have a shitty zucc headset

They had the color handheld market before the hardware to make it feasible existed, one of the main reasons the original gameboy succeeded was that it specifically didn’t use a color backlit screen and opted for battery life instead, which in turn allowed them to sell peripherals for even more money

I own an OLED deck and aggressively shill them because it’s more than just a gaming console and a valuable piece of technology
As some who constantly moves and rents Airbnb’s so he can fuck girls because I still have roommates/live with my parents ,the deck is way to go. I can pirate movies and games on it so easily and it does everything I need

but muh Smash

You need to realize this isn’t that important if you want to enjoy the casual sex you deserved in your 20’s
Alex and Ethan, if you guys are in here, I miss you every fucking day and wish y’all could see how it turned it around

They had the color handheld market before the hardware to make it feasible existed, one of the main reasons the original gameboy succeeded was that it specifically didn’t use a color backlit screen and opted for battery life instead, which in turn allowed them to sell peripherals for even more money

Nintendo GameBoy: April 1989 (Japan), June 1989 (NA)
Atari Lynx: September 1989 (NA)
GameGear: October 1990 (JP) / April 1991 (NA)
NEC PCE GT/ Turbo Express: 1990 (WW)

The GameGear was far from the first colour portable handheld. The Lynx beat it by a year. The GameGear was released before the PCE GT in Japan, but released after in other regions. The Atari Lynx is an 8-bit and 16-bit hybrid system, and has some pretty impressive specs for 1989. The Turbo Express is a portable TG-16/ PCE, and uses the same Hu Cards. The GameGear was a portable Master System with some minor enhancements, including a better colour palette All of those other handhelds were technically better than the GameBoy. But the GameBoy won out due to it being the cheapest hardware, being bundled with Tetris and having the best battery life out of that selection of handhelds.

Finns are too autistic for their designs to have staying power

Yeah yeah, step aside Mr. Craig, you aren't even 6' tall.

I couldn't care less, I preferred the Game Gear over the Game Boy, the PSP over the DS, the PS Vita over the 3DS and I prefer the Steam Deck over the Switch. Oh, but what about the sales? You might ask, and my answer is another question... are you a stock owner? If not, why do you care that much? I'm not payed by these companies, I pay for their products, if I like it less or more then that's what counts, I don't get the obsession Nintendo fans have with sales, like Sony fans used to have, it's dumb.

Game Gear is still the most underrated handheld ever.

switch killed the steam deck before it was even released lol. everyone who wanted to play stardew on the go bought a switch or a switch lite. steam deck doesn't have mario kart or splatoon sorry nerds

also the psp rocked. I hate your image.

nintendoniggers would sip diarrhea trough a straw is it was labled nintendo

The Wii U, Labo, and ARMS flopped though. Same with smaller titles like Advance Wars and Chibi Robo.

The steamdeck should in theory be the #1 seller among consoles based on pricing. Unfortunately, gamers are dumb and that goes triple for console gamers. They genuinely think buying a $500 console and a sub fee of $60 a year for 5+ years plus 10 games for avg $50 each is cheaper than a 1k PC that will last 10+ years with steam sales. Not to mention you want steam to go head to head with nintendo? Their fans don't know anything outside shitty pokemon games, sissy link porn, bing bing wahoo, bing bing wahoo kart, and of course super stench brothers. Valve will not charge for online multiplayer. That alone should convert people

Steam fans don't know who Mario is

Who the fuck doesn't know who Mario is?