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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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You missed the point where I said for the LAYMAN. Average user. Idiot consumer looking for a console for their kid or whatever. That's how things take off. Yeah it might be great for people who know things but if it doesn't grab the suburban mom market even a little then it's probably not going anywhere too far.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You probably do have a point there. The SteamDeck did manage to make it to the point where people that couldn't give a rats ass about Linux have picked them up, so I'd say it's possible, though maybe not likely.