Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console
artyom@piefed.social 3 days agoThe 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
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
Nintendo had a similar implementation and I don’t recall mass scalping of those devices either. Obviously anyone could purchase a single one and scalp it but that doesn’t create a mass shortage.