Comment on Steam Deck is out of stock in the US?

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, having a quasi-monopoly on selling PC games online. They are constantly burning money.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And do they eat the loss on this quasi-monopoly, or do they make a healthy profit?

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It means that they can spend money on “hobby projects” like employing gamedev teams that don’t actually ship anything and prototype until everybody leaves with boreout or their other hardware endeavours, the Deck itself isn’t even that profitable.

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And if the deck is already unprofitable, then might they be unwilling to incur further losses on it if significant fundamentals changed?

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