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Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)

To your last point, Beach when the Steam Deck launched they described its price point at the time as “painful” but felt it was necessary. Turns out they made the right call and it was wildly successful, so hopefully they stay the course on “painful” pricing.

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krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Also pretty much all modern consoles have been eye watering my expensive on launch save the switch. Even the switch 2 was very pricey.

Early adopters will jump on at the higher price point and everyone else will get on board when the price falls.

Honestly the thing I REALLY care about here is the steam controller 2. I LOVED the original. Gimme gimme gimme

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- vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think you misunderstand. It was painful for Valve to cut the margin so thin, assuming they kept one at all.
  
  Allowing to Valve’s messaging at least the Deck launched at the lowest price they possibly could manage.
  
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  - krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ahhhh I did misunderstand. Thanks for clarifying.
    
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- samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  when the price falls.
  
  No longer a given, but Valve did lower the price of the Deck while every single other console got a price hike, so there’s hope.
  
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