They are overpriced and the current PC market is also overpriced.
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mereo@piefed.ca 2 hours agoI will not call it overpriced because the current PC market is crazy because of AI. Even Valve isn’t happy with the price.
JillyB@beehaw.org 31 minutes ago
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I want to see what Sony and Microsoft price theirs at and how much of a loss it will be for them.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Sony can afford to discount on the promise of online sales and planned cost reduction. I’m not sure Microsoft are going to manage another Xbox.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah, the fact that they are using bespoke parts, but still barely come in above the independent build cost tells me that they aren’t raking billions off of this. I’m fine with the price. Expensive, yes, but so is everything else.
SystemDisc@feddit.org 17 minutes ago
My main issue with it is that’s it’s not upgradable and does not support eGPUs.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah the real money is on the backend when people can now impulse buy games from their couch
snooggums@piefed.world 2 hours ago
It is ’overpriced’ compared to a desktop in the same way laptops are ’overpriced’ compared to desktops. Making things smaller increases cost, especially when there is a lot of heat dissipation needed.