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.
T means Ton, a unit that nobody uses to measure “game consoles” in any other context.
You mean it’s not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.
It clearly means 50 Teraconsoles.
Is a Teraconsole one million times better than a Sega Megadrive?
I’m just gonna gonna go with ‘yes’.
I’d rather have one steam machine than one million Sega Megadrives, so that checks out.
It is my pleasure to confer upon you a totally real and legit Associates degree in Economics from the University of Lemmy.
Other than… importing. Are you for real?
The headline can add 3 characters instead of making everyone guess what the letter T means
I am kind of mind blown that people are having problems figuring out T means tons…
Or you can use your brain, and use context clues to deduce the correct interpretation.
For game consoles?
You know they don’t ship them one at a time, right?
Anything but metric
And here I was thinking it was a measure of magnetic flux density.
Only if the Kirovs are not reporting.
Ton, or tonne? There’s a difference
Ton because it’s the U.S.
The article says “50 Tonnes” tho, so now what…
This article says tonnes, but if you go to the original Verge arrival it’s tons.
Heck, maybe it’s really “TEU” but whoever is reporting has no idea what the EU part means so they tossed it.