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Charted: Video Game Industry Revenues By Year & Platform (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

And oddly, it also seems like handheld dipped into near-nothingness even sooner than arcades (perhaps due to things like the Switch and the Steam Deck merging the former field into PCs and consoles, I guess?). How common were arcades when the original version of the Nintendo Switch came out (2017-ish)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Switch and steam deck ARE handhelds for me… so the chart seems poorly defined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Practically non-existent except in niche settings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So I’m guessing the chart is telling me that non-phone-nor-Switch/Deck handhelds don’t even have a niche scene, by comparison?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'd guess that's correct. Those have incredibly small manufacturing runs for super niche communities, compared to major manufacturers. But also keep in mind these are based on estimates, not omniscient information