Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement

If deck sales actually dropped, it would seem to suggest otherwise.

I am waiting for the day I will have time to play :')

The Switch catalog was limited in no small part because the device just couldn't give acceptable performance for a lot of contemporary cross-platform games. That, of course, didn't matter for first-party titles.

Switch 2 performance is projected to end up somewhere around a base PS4, with better GPU but somewhat diminished CPU. However, it's going to have more memory than the Xbox Series S that teams had trouble porting their games to.

The Switch 2 might benefit a lot from this generation's extended cross-gen period. Add that to franchises like Fire Emblem, Metroid, Mario, Mario Kart, Pikmin and Zelda, and the average consumer is going to think of Steam as the "limited" platform.

A lot of conjecture, and maybe Switch 2 will turn out to be a monumental flop. I'm cautiously optimistic.

By the way, the old, selective policy that Nintendo exercised is pretty much a thing of the past. Just browse through the eShop for three minutes.

Its ranking has dropped by 44 spots on Steam's top sellers list. Unless the sales numbers of everything else have shot up significantly, that implies that sales of the Steam Deck have gone down. I don't know how significant it is because I don't know how the rankings are done, but it's a pretty big drop for a 2-week period.