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Not having a screen is not going to lower the price much.

Off course not having a screen will lower the price much, especially if we talk about OLED. It does not affect the price as much as memory, but it helps not having it. And that is not even the only thing. Yes, the Steam Machine has some other stuff going on over the Steam Deck, like 8GB of additional VRAM (oof) and bigger and better CPU. I am aware of that and that was not my point. I was talking about all the other non memory stuff, that combined still has impact on the price.

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femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, but I was saying that it will not offset the price increase from memory related expenses.

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- thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I wasn’t arguing that? I feel like there is some disconnect in our discussion?
  
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  - femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ahh, I see. Sorry about that.
    
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  - iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The conversation so far has been (paraphrasing) …
    
    Lemmchen: “Wow steam machines are gonna be expensive”, on a thread specifically about a massive price hike on Steam Decks (due to memory pricing)
    
    You: “Well maybe not, machines won’t have OLED screens, battery, and optional controller”
    
    Femtek: “yeah but those things aren’t why steam Decks are having this huge price hike. They are going up because of memory” memory is a shared component between Decks and machines.
    
    You: “yes, those things will impact the price, but these other things that the machine won’t have will also impact the price.”
    
    Femtek: “not by the same amount”
    
    You: “I wasn’t arguing that”
    
    What point were you trying to make if not that having no screen/optional controller would offset the increased memory prices?
    
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    thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think you guys don’t read the context of the message. I was responding to:
    
    Well, here goes the hope for a sub-1000€ Steam machine.
    
    In which I tried to explain there is hope for a machine under 1000 Euros, because the machine just don’t add up in price, but there are parts that make it cheaper to produce. So your paraphrasing therefore incomplete and misleading.
    
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