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No doubt Nintendo has the kids market cornered in this area. Steam should ensure their UI is easy enough for a kid to use though. I'm not a fan of Big Picture mode either, but it sounds like they are building on it for this. Any updates should be automatic/easy to install.Steam certainly can get converts if they play it right.
I do think they are missing some key things if they want to eat into that market share:
It's nice that the specs of the Steam Deck look great. However, I don't think specs were a major part of the value proposition with the Switch to begin with.
- Size. For a hand-held portable solution, Steam Deck is absolutely huge. Switch has it beat there in terms of form factor and total portability. won't fit non-adult sized hands
- Price
- Durability. Would I buy a steam deck for a child? Hell no... Sticky hands? Steam Deck drop test? yikes.....
- Ease of use (UI, etc.). With flexibility come less stream-lining. The Switch UI is so simple even small children can figure it out. Steam big picture mode is still not there. Drivers? Windows update?
- First-party, platform specific games
- Kid friendly. It's a big deal. Just among the kids in my family circle there are 7 Switches, soon to be 8.
Anything regarding windows (drivers/updates etc...) is on the custom end, so that won't be an issue for them. It's a PC, so that should be fairly simple for pc users.
They have a lot of proving to do still, but hopefully they learned from their failures.
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