"objectively wrong" that always makes me chuckle.

Look, you're clearly quite young so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. When it comes to hardware, Valve are not Apple. And neither are they Microsoft or Sony.

They've only ever sold three (or four if you count the dock) bits of hardware which means their manufacturing, sourcing, storage, supply chain and logistics are small fry compared to the console hardware giants. I worked in inventory management and supply chain for a few years so I have some experience, and I've seen lots of expensive hardware, that sold very well, discounted to next to nothing. There comes a point where holding stock is more costly than selling it at a loss. It's called clearance.

When Valve started selling off the Steam Controllers for a "clearance" price, I immediately knew that something else was coming along (I'd hoped for the SC2, but what we got was much better).

And as for sales, by your logic the Steam Deck must be a huge failure because it's only sold a million units, which is a fraction of what the Switch sold in its first year. But I don't see anyone calling the Deck a failure, do you?

I have no idea what the Steam Controller was forecasted to sell and how much money it made, and neither do you. So I'm not going to claim it was a success (which you seem convinced I'm trying to do) or a failure.

But what's for absolute certain is that the feedback Valve got from the users of the Steam Controller was used in the design of the Steam Deck, so from that point of view it was definitely successful. Whether it was financially successful will probably never be known, but then Xboxs and Playstations are sold at a massive loss, so they're also financial "failures", if you use that particular measure.

The new hardware was the Steam Deck you tit.

Also, of course the SC wasn't going to sell as much as the main console's controllers, that's not a measure of success. Use your head ffs.

It's pretty standard for manufacturers to clear stock from storage when they're about to launch new hardware.

But please, do share your source on the Steam Controller's "poor" sales.

I saw some lukewarm reviews for The Peripheral when it first released, but the high rating on IMDB, plus Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan's involvement, convinced me to give it a go.

And fucking hell it's one of the best sci-fi series I've seen in a long time. Fuck knows what those reviewers were smoking.

What I struggle with is finding decent recap videos on YouTube that don't have some annoying moron yapping over the top.

Why can't anyone make recap videos that only use audio from the series?

fortunately not

I've had a Nexus 4, Nexus 5X, Pixel, Pixel 2, Pixel 4a and Pixel 6 and they've all been great phones.