Are they making loss with each sales? I’d imagine the $100 price point mean they earn quite a bit.
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makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
“Behind”
100% what this actually means is valve is only making them in limited to supply to lengthening the time they take losses.
Valve ain’t making money on decks, they ain’t going to make money on the controllers, and they are going to take a bloody red bath on the machines.
Y’all need to read between the lines. It’s a controller. It ain’t hard to make.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I doubt they are earning as much as you think.
They jam packed it full of shit that nobody needs like capacitive Joysticks, and capacitive touchpads on the bottom.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I…don’t know how much they earn, but they probably doesn’t sell this as loss.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think people are forgetting that the steam machine is going to ship with a controller as well. I think they have to split their controller production between people buying just the controller and the amount of steam machines they are producing as they get ready to launch that.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
They increased the price of the steam deck quite a bit. Doubt they’re not making momey off of it.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You clearly haven’t watched the other billionaires run at losses for years.
Steam is very happy to lose money on consoles to keep their 30% cut and monopoly.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
You’re forgetting that it’s just a computer, and can it can be reformatted, and you can install any OS on it to do anything with it. It’s not locked to the Steam Store in any way. It’s not like a console where they can sell it at a loss and make money on games later because console companies make it impossible for you to use it as a normal computer. Steam does not.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And yet someone who buys a steam branded computer is specifically highly likely to buy more games from steam. Yes, feel free to buy a cheaper computer with the same specs and never buy from steam ever. You’re not the target of this product.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
That has nothing to do with my point. I’m saying that, given the current price (and age), of the steam deck, I doubt that they’re losing money on it.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I disagree. They already had thin margins, they started it themselves. Then prices went up and they sold at a loss. The recent increase was because they couldn’t take more of a bath. This excludes the tens of millions of dollars they have had to pump in you Linux.
I have no doubt until I see data otherwise they are breaking even at best.