This is in addition to the other 50 T of "game consoles" imported in the last couple months that did not result in restocking of Steam Deck.

That's somewhere between 10k-30k units. The steam controller at launch had about 15k-30k units that sold out in 30 min, but it was at least 5-10x cheaper than Steam Frame/Machine will be, so perhaps the window to buy right at launch will be a bit longer if they go live with current volumes.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 54 points 6 months ago (22 children)

T means Ton, a unit that nobody uses to measure "game consoles" in any other context.

  • source
  • hideshow 22 child comments
  • [–] 52 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    You mean it's not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It clearly means 50 Teraconsoles.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Is a Teraconsole one million times better than a Sega Megadrive?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm just gonna gonna go with 'yes'.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Ton, or tonne? There's a difference

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Other than… importing. Are you for real?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The headline can add 3 characters instead of making everyone guess what the letter T means

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I am kind of mind blown that people are having problems figuring out T means tons..

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago*

    Maybe it’s because it’s unusual to measure game consoles in tonnes (in the media) that we look for another explanation.

    And I knew a tonne (1000kg) to be "t", this capital T is new to me. I just checked wikipedia apparently there’s a fuckton of different tons.

  • source
  • parent