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

• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not upset. I was answering that Valve hasn’t huge capital because they hoard the money.

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