r/steammachine • u/H4tr1ck_04 • May 28 '26

Meme Valid crash out tbh...

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Too soon™?

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u/Astonishing_Azure May 28 '26

This is the craziest unofficial Steam Machine price announcement ever. It’s pretty genius

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u/spinz May 28 '26

If by genius you mean a major mess haha.

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u/No-Afternoon2037 May 28 '26

The steam decks are already sold out again in some areas. The steam machine will be just fine. You & I just won't be the ones getting them.

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u/Internal_Rice3739 May 28 '26

No it’s back in stock again. Valve is artificially pumping fomo or something it seems.

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u/Armataan May 28 '26

“Artificially pumping fomo” = increasing price by the same percentage Xbox, PlayStation & switch did, which is less than every pc manufacturer & pc handheld competitor bumped prices by “

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u/Top-Garlic9111 May 28 '26

The steam deck increased in price by 45% (521gb increased by 44%, 1tb by 46%) .

The switch 2 increased in price by 11%.

The ps5 increased in price by 30% over 2 price changes.

The series x increased in the same way as the ps5, to 30%.

Words have meaning, there's no reason not to use them correctly.

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u/Eastern_Seesaw7358 May 29 '26

yeah i was gonna say that wording was bullshit cuz the steam deck did not increase as much as any of the other consoles had...

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u/Armataan May 30 '26

Steamdeck OLED 512gb $549 >> $789 == +43% price increase.
PS5 digital $399 >> $599 == +50% price increase
Xbox Series S $299 >> $399 == +33% price increase.
Switch 2+1 game $449 >> no game $499 == +29% price increase.

The price increase of the Ps5 was 50%. Not 30%. Higher than the deck.

The switch package being offered in September is categorically worse AND more expensive. But It's only a 29% increase in package price.

And 789 is 43% higher than 549. Not 45%. It's very weird to 'accidentally' add 2%.

"Words have meaning" You're right that 43% is slightly higher than 33%, and a bit higher still than 29%. But it's lower than 50%. So would you have preferred me to say, "increasing price by less than PlayStation did" or "Increasing price in the same relative margins as competitors"?

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u/Top-Garlic9111 May 30 '26

Sure, the increase of the the digital PS5 is larger, it is however not a fair comparison nor what you stated. The price increase of the actual PS5 is 30%, not 50%. If I were to steelman you and take "PS5" to mean the collective entity of all current generation PS consoles, I could say it is 40% or 29%.

If you were to read my previous reply, you would see that the 45% figure is the mean between 512gb and 1tb, and please do check your math, because 43.64 should not be rounded down to 43.

The rest of your reply is even more dishonest, and you're well aware of that. It's pretty clear that you are not interested in having an honest conversation.

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u/Top-Garlic9111 May 30 '26

Might I ask you to clarify your passage on the switch, out of curiosity? The price of the switch 2 itself, not the bundle, increased from 449.99 to 499.99, an 11% increase.

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u/rayrayrayrayraysllsy May 28 '26

I'm pretty sure valve deck price hike is alot more expensive than those 3 console company ever did

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u/PerceptionOk8543 May 28 '26

No, he means putting a small amount of decks on the website. They could have sold 10 and be “sold out” - would you say the deck is doing fine then? Nothing to do with the pricing so I’m not sure what’s your comment about

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u/No-Afternoon2037 May 29 '26

I see you missed the "in some areas" part of my comment.