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- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Just noticed all models of the steam deck are marked as OOS now.
I know the LCD models were going but the other oled models were still good.
Did I miss any news about there being a freeze on the sales from Valve or any info about this?
Valve has an absurd amount of money, they could easily eat the loss if they wanted to.
There’s a reason valve has an absurd amount of money.
Yes, having a quasi-monopoly on selling PC games online. They are constantly burning money.
And do they eat the loss on this quasi-monopoly, or do they make a healthy profit?
It means that they can spend money on “hobby projects” like employing gamedev teams that don’t actually ship anything and prototype until everybody leaves with boreout or their other hardware endeavours, the Deck itself isn’t even that profitable. Throw it on the wall and see what sticks is a luxurious innovation strategy that can only be employed if you make that much money.
You’re so close. And if the deck is already unprofitable, then might they be unwilling to incur further losses on it if significant fundamentals changed?
Also lol are you an employee of Valve or Tim Sweeney or something? Because why would anyone be upset at this, it benefits the consumer in almost every way one can think of. I’m no fan of corporations and Steam has some enshittification in it like forced updates, but come on.
I’m not upset. I was answering that Valve hasn’t huge capital because they hoard the money.
What is Capitol if it isn’t money? You are literally saying they don’t have money because they are hoarding money.
Sorry not my native language, I mean hoarding money is not the reason why they have huge amounts of capital.
The goal of any business is not to eat the loss, if its not important for survival. The Steam Deck is not crucial for operation of their business. Compared to consoles where its their only income (usually) and they depend on the number of sold units. Also compared to consoles, Valve is not in a position where they heavily compete on price and need to bring it down to price of competition.
In short, there is no need for Valve to eat the cost. It’s already a good price too.
Valve build products they want to use, they just happen to sell them to the rest of us aswell.