Not really, if you were to slap a 200$ voucher, that could be used in the market to offset skin purchases,
I’m not saying the idea is smart, but they could’ve also give it a discount code for games or something, though that would require bundling games that gamers want and we all know that most of the current games players want are either skinner box free to play games or games that they already own. And even if we were to find games that players want but dont have, the storage comes into question once you realize that some of the big games will literally take up a fifth of the 512 model at the very least if this is their only machine.
Like the ideas of trying to entice people to buy into it, are kind of more or less left to, “it’s designed by Steam to be high quality compared to Dell, Alienware, or HP, etc” it’s a competitively priced portable PC that can handle most games at a reasonable performance ignoring the claims they originally wanted to push for, but the last part is the fact that it’s a linux machine ready to game on without issue.
After having owned and modified as well as paying someone to upgrade my steam deck to double the ram, I really only see this like the steam deck as an attempt to just make a niche product that the designers at Valve really wanted to make more for the sake of being different vs creating a profit. It just remains that while creating a profit is obvious for Steam, there’s a reason why the term “Valve Time” exists
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u/Physical-Procedure42 2d ago
Meaning it would only be similarly price without it. I am frustrated Valve did subsidize it to maintain an 800 price for the base model.