Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
What could valve do? They can’t sell them at a loss compared to component prices.
If they tried to target lower budget/spec for some steam machines that might help though. But really have we ever expected people to do much gaming on a £500 system? Sure it’s always been possible but it’s also always been pretty limited.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
They were definitely selling at a huge loss with the original prices and depending on how hard their suppliers got hit, they might still be selling at a loss now. The game sales will make up for it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
You don’t have to buy games from them though, if it’s at a loss people would start buying them for other uses too
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
They very much are…
klankin@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
Theres also a lot of hardware on them that is useless for server use, but still adds cost.
So its probably still cheaper just to buy a used server instead of an army of mid steam decks.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 4 hours ago
They very much do. There are countless tutorials on using it for other things than steam