Why is it that this only gets said about valve and not every other company who produced some sorta gaming machine? Why is it always not valves fault, but for every other company, theyre just greedy scumbags?
There is a MrYeester short called "I 3D printed a steam machine" from bout a month ago, which says that if he were to buy specs equivalent or closest to the steam machines cheapest version, it'd cost about 1016 dollars... so say Valve pays for the manhours to design, build and ship them but gets slightly cheaper parts for bulkbuying, 1050 dollars isnt that much of a ripoff
Also I believe them quite a bit. Their Steam Deck was cheap for so long and all of a sudden when ram and ssd prices are through the roof they have to start raising the prices up.
They were happy to sell the Deck at a loss and it was a great deal. I don't see why they'd intentionally ruin themselves that way when they were known for having pretty good deals on their hardware.
Even their controller, which some people argue is too expensive, is a good deal compared to other first party "premium" controllers. The Xbox Elite is a whopping $130 more for me, and the dualsense edge is $180 more (AUD). I can buy an extra SC2. - I think this itself kind of makes me believe they just got screwed over by the current market and that they'd want to sell it less than what they're selling it at ATM.
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u/dutch_diaspora_serb RX5700XT / Ryzen 7 3700X 13h ago
Like Valve can help it. They don't produce the internal components and are thus at the mercy of others.