Bruh, that’s why I will buy refurbished steam decks
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Yeah, I wonder if this will lead to a lot of the original Lenovo legion go's selling out. They've basically been on perpetual sale for awhile now. They have somewhat better hardware so for people in the market who don't mind installing Linux, they'd be a pretty good option.
Assuming the steam deck is even in stock in your region.
I think that’s it’s a slap in the face to remind us all that Valve is a for profit company.
They are supporting Linux, they make repairable hardware, proton is amazing, but they’re doing it so they can own the full stack and not have to deal with another party’s transaction fees when selling games.
They aren’t going to sell a product if they don’t make a profit. They want to make more profit. They have the potential to enshitify at any moment. We can all be excited about Steam hardware but how is it different than Apple locking its customers in a walled garden?
What happens if they decide to make all the games you bought unavailable for licensing reasons? What happens if they shut down and suddenly all your games are gone? What happens if they lock their hardware?
Steam Deck and SteamOS are no walled garden.
That's the difference.
Feel free to run Bazzite on the SD, or even Windows, lol.
If all my Steam games are gone, I continue playing games from my GOG library through Heroic Games Launcher.
Again, see: no walled garden.
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Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50. Do you really believe it costs $50 more, per unit when accounting for ecosystem lock-in? Can Valve justify $200 more, for every single unit, when customers will almost certainly give the company hundreds of dollars more every single year!? Fuck Nintendo, fuck Valve, FUCK BILLIONAIRES...
Interesting take. Honestly I don't think people are ready to entertain the idea that Valve may not the consumer loving, cannot-shoot-themsleves-in-the-face billion dollar tech company their fans seem to paint them as, but to respond to your actual point...
The Steam deck is an open platform so not a guarantee that a new user will result in game sales, it's possible (but not easy enough imo) to put your weekly free Epic games on there and forego the Steam store. Or pirated games.
Also the Switch 2 sales numbers have been huge and Nintendo have an established reputation among the general population. So they have a better relationship with parts manufacturers (can navigate lower BOMs) and are more guaranteed to make their money back. Valve have no such guarantee.
This price increase is still an obscene amount and I'll be surprised if people still buy Steam decks going forward. Especially given the state and direction of android gaming.