Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 days ago
Unfortunately, during the pandemic we discovered what happens when things are underpriced. Effectively, if you don't have the original company pricing their products according to the market, the scalpers all swoop in and buy up all the stock and resell it at market rates.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
The difference here is you can only buy them directly from Valve, they’ll probably have some sort of limit, and you’ll probably need an account to be a certain age, at least in the early days.
pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 3 days ago
They had the exact limits you described back when the Deck was released and that didn’t stop scalpers.
However, the Deck was a much more hyped product, so there was more incentive for scalpers to jump through the hoops.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
I don’t remember hearing anything about Deck scalpers
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
Me neither. I’m sure it happened, but it didn’t seem to be a major issue