Submitted 6 days ago by Canuck@sh.itjust.works to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
This is in addition to the other 50 T of “game consoles” imported in the last couple months that did not result in restocking of Steam Deck.
That’s somewhere between 10k-30k units. The steam controller at launch had about 15k-30k units that sold out in 30 min, but it was at least 5-10x cheaper than Steam Frame/Machine will be, so perhaps the window to buy right at launch will be a bit longer if they go live with current volumes.
50 T
T what? Tortillas? Trombones? I think they imported 50 Turtles.
Oh my god, we need to make ‘Canadian units of measurement’ a thing.
My only regret in life is that I’ll never get to experience timbits
Oh sorry, let me translate it into freedom units for you!
50T is about 232,558 Big Macs
Fucking thank you!!!
“T” for tonnage. Oftenly abbreviated to talk about cargo
50 tricycles worth of game consoles.
T as in Texans?
50t
The article was probably written by an American to mess that up
50 megagrams
Stay strong against the scalpers!
Yep. Load up your Steam Wallets prior to future sales instead of trying to enter your credit card info. You’ll have better luck with the payment being processed if it doesn’t have to go through a third party.
Coming from someone who regrets not doing that prior to the Steam Controller launch.
I never thought of that, but I also don’t want to put hundreds of dollars in my Steam wallet
Honestly, it feels like if this was Steam Machines, valve would have waited and released them bundled with the controller. I’m assuming them launching the controller by itself was because they didn’t have Steam Machines ready to go yet.
So I’m assuming this means this is more likely to be the Steam Frame or Steam Deck, but we’ll see.
I think they’re literally just shoving shit out the door as fast as they can, and their initial production runs were … kind of done in the middle of rampocalypse/tariff nonsense, round #(i forget).
Because you’d have to be an idiot to not realize the world economy is headed for a Great Depression, therefore they need to make money ASAP on hardware, before people’s budgets contract dramatically.
I also think they seem have to have just genuienly underestimated demand.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing newly made Steam Decks soon, iirc, they retooled the actual Steam Deck facility … to make the Steam Controllers.
Probably more likely to see the Steam Machine and Frame, and then a Steam Deck 2 at some point in the future, presuming we do not at that point live in the Fallout timeline.
i wonder if the frame would also be declared as ‘game console’ or if all of those are steam machines
An article I read on The Verge earlier indicated it could be the Steam Frame
Steam deck too
So I guess at this point the Steam Controller and Steam Machine… arguably count as a ‘small batch, bespoke’ game console/device?
Artisanal, farm-to-table entertainment systems.
… It does also at least attempt to provide you with choice, curated content as well.
50t = 50 000kg Steam Machine is 2.6kg, if the package adds a little it should be around 3kg. So it’s ~16666 consoles
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 days ago
T means Ton, a unit that nobody uses to measure “game consoles” in any other context.
LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
You mean it’s not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Other than… importing. Are you for real?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 days ago
The headline can add 3 characters instead of making everyone guess what the letter T means
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 days ago
For game consoles?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Ton, or tonne? There’s a difference
LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Ton because it’s the U.S.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Heck, maybe it’s really “TEU” but whoever is reporting has no idea what the EU part means so they tossed it.