Comment on New Decksight update, plus funding time extended

• alerich@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know. But why?

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  • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The creator mentioned why on the discord mentioned in the post above. The jist of the reasoning is cost.

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    • alerich@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But I don’t get it. How many steam decks have been sold in Europe? How can that not be a market for them? Getting the CE label later may work out, but don’t they need the money now?

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      • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It takes money to make money. The whole project is a bit of a gamble. While paying for CE certification would probably pay off if this thing got popular, if it flops as a whole, then it would flop even harder.

        Basically, because it costs more to do, it’s an even bigger gamble. Even though it could work out, they must’ve done the math and said, hmmm, let’s wait and get some legs under us first.

        Heck, interest stalled out already and they barely made their funding. I feel like everyone who was gonna buy one, in the US anyway, has bought one. So how much bigger would Europe be for them? And how much does it cost to get CE certification? I don’t know the answers to these questions. But it’s foggy enough that I can see why they might not want to do it just yet.

        For the record I bought one 🤷‍♂️

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CE certification is a process that takes time and money to perform

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      CE mark is a self-approved, it is neither an actual certification nor is there is a process or money required. It’s simply a promise from the manufacturer that the product “conforms with European health, safety, and environmental protection standards.”

      It either does that and they can put a CE mark on it, or it doesn’t and that product is never going to be available in the EU as-is.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        true, but you need to account for it during production which takes effort and money.

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