Comment on New Decksight update, plus funding time extended
alerich@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoBut 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?
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 days 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 🤷♂️
alerich@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Good summary. Guess there are two ways to look at it. I hope they make it so I can buy one.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Thanks, I hope you can buy one too. Is this something you could buy and have forwarded to you?
If you need a US address, and someone to forward it to you, feel free to PM me 👍
The only cred I have on here is from a guy I met in Canada to sell some phones to. But I promise I’m trustworthy haha
alerich@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Thanks, but that would be a lot additional shopping feed. I will just wait