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[–] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

Its companies like this, purchasing the subsidized Deck, with no revenue circling back to Valve, that contributed to them needing to charge full price for their Machine & Frame, raise prices on the Deck.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Disney got them at a discounted price?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Valve has said multiple times they don't sell their hardware at a loss. Razor thin margins, but not a loss.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Original steamdeck was sold at loss atleast that is what ive read back then. Not sure about oled and today after ram-agedon

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Nothing in Gaben's quotes says loss. The author is making assumptions based on the "aggressive" and "painful" comments.

    They also outright said the Steam Machine isn't sold at a loss.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Ah so Rbnsft is spreading misinfo.

    I'm not able to find anything that corroborates Canuck's claim that prompted my question.

    At this point I'm assuming they were also talking out their ass.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't say they're spreading misinformation. The article they linked DOES try to make the claim that Valve said they were selling it at a loss. However, they provided little evidence to back it up.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Steamdecks are consols [sic]

    triggered

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Consoles are usually just weird, cheap, locked down, underpowered pcs, that only play certain brands/formats of games, and have unique cases, lol.

    It basically means 'thing that is (usually) for your living room what plays video games and such'.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that was the point of my joke. I was just having a giggle at someone referring to it as a console. The truth in the jest - I do stand by "Steam Deck is a PC proper." I certainly wouldn't have bought mine if it was anything less.

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