• dlove67@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    The deck is only successful because Valve is already successful enough to take the first loss on a console

    This may be true(and I wouldn’t doubt it being the case, at least on the $399 model) but it’s pure speculation on your part.

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        1 year ago

        I was only talking about your claim that they’re selling at a loss, nothing about success or not.

        We don’t know their BOM so its speculation that they’re taking a loss. (Unless I misunderstood your claim)

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          Sorry, I mean the overall loss. Not selling at a loss from a manufacturing point but a loss on the development and research of a console. They spent years just designing and building prototypes of the Steam Deck. It is an assumption but I think a fair one to say that they’ve yet to make their money back from those costs to break into the console industry.