• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They are comparing the totality of the value something has been bought for. So a $60 game needs to sell 10 copies, when $600 piece of hardware just needs to sell one. That’s been the reason why Valve Index was nr 1 for so long - it was very expensive, with purchases comming from the enthusiast market. Same thing for the steam deck - not many people will buy it, but it will be worth a lot of AAA games.

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      1 year ago

      What other metric would you use to measure “top sellers”, flat units sold? $10 indies and games on sale would probably dominate that list. Seems the most sense to base it off of revenue.

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        Yeah i don’t get it. People are underselling just how much that is. I can’t even buy one in my region, and i think there are many more. The number would be even higher if you could buy it worldwide like a game.