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Comment on Steam Machine update, Valve now says all three new products will ship this year (Updated)

Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Oh come on, they could just open up preorders and trickle them out. Charge a bit more at first to cover the cost while promising to lower the price as RAM gets cheaper.

I want my Frame :(

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cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

as ram gets cheaper

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thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How to pre-order, if Valve even does not know what price the machine will end up? At the time of sending the machines, the price could go up for Valve very high and people have pre-ordered for wrong price. That means everyone who pre-ordered would get a price hike and in general a bad publicity. Pre-ordering anything is a bad thing if you don’t know the end product well. And combine it at these high prices in uncertainty times like these…

Valve should not make any promises or pre-orders right now. It would be the wrong thing to do.

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- Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  They must already have stock in their warehouse, so they can just set the right price.
  
  And for the next batch they set the price again.
  
  So I meant less pre-order and more let people order in batches with adjusted price.
  
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  - thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I don’t think Valve has stock in warehouse already, I doubt that. They need to figure out pricing before committing. This is not a situation like Nintendo Switch, where they need to have millions at launch and more and be sure to sell them all. Also other companies get better deals and probably Valve needs to wait, or pay more to have higher priority to build them.
    
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