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Steam has a massive catalogue. I doubt Nintendo could ever match it given how different the goals of the companies are.
That being said Switch will outsell the SteamDeck because the Switch is shipped kid safe. You need to actually do things on the SteamDeck to make it safe for kids.
Even outside of being kid "safe", the Deck is too big and heavy for kids. Heck, I know a lot of adults who have that issue.
It's also fairly expensive and while I would not call it "fragile", I don't the Deck would survive being owned by your average 10 year old as well as a Switch Lite does.
But now the switch 2 is big and heavy.
The Switch 2 is supposedly going to be 206mm L x 115mm W x 14mm D.
The Deck is 298mm x 117mm x 49mm. So still 1.5x the length of the S2 and 3x the width.
I can't find any reports of the Switch 2's weight, but I expect it to be significantly less than the 640g of the Deck. The Switch 2 will have a slightly larger screen, but is a smaller device overall.
But all that aside I still expect Nintendo to offer another, smaller version of the Switch 2 within a couple years. They had the Switch Lite, 2DS, DS Lite, DSi, GBA Micro, GBA SP, Gameboy Pocket, and probably more I'm not thinking of. So they will probably do a Switch 2 Lite or something.
Your measurements of the switch may be missing the controls
I can't say for sure, but it looks like it includes the controls based on this mock-up from IGN: