Comment on New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt is like you don’t even care about profits and value the consumer.
Comment on New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt is like you don’t even care about profits and value the consumer.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I mean, Valve is wildly profitable. On a profit-per-employee basis, they beat out virtually every other company in existence. The Steam Deck was never a massive profit-seeking venture for them; It was a way to divest from Microsoft, (who had been rumbling about going the way of Google/Apple and forcing everyone to use their proprietary store, then skimming a portion of all sales made on said store), and to be able to bring the Steam storefront to people who otherwise wouldn’t be using Steam.
The only reason Microsoft backed off of their Microsoft Store idea was because Apple and Google got slapped in the EU, and forced to allow third-party app stores. And by that point, the Steam Deck was already in production, so there wasn’t much point in canceling it. Especially since, as I mentioned earlier, it expands the Steam Store’s reach, which is their real end goal.