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According to the logic of this video it costs Valve $0 to produce steam decks. Jeez, the Internet is so filled up with these unresearched, amateurish attempts at journalism.
I would bet they’re basically losing money on the $399 model, but making money on the higher spec models. No other manufacturer has been able to offer similar performance at that low price point (yet).
Cost analysis estimates I’ve seen have them also taking a small loss on 256GB units, only making a profit on 512GB units.
They didn’t have official data though, they were mostly working backwards from taking the ifixit part costs and assuming ifixit used their standard markup.
Makes sense, Gabe said in an interview that making that $399 price point was “painful”. But I guess the point is that the Deck sales drive Steam game sales.
I would bet that they aren’t losing as much money as other companies would. Valve made their own OS for the Steam Deck. Asus and Lenovo made similar devices, but they both run Windows and have to pay Microsoft licensing fees.
It’ll be really interesting if Valve opens up a partner program with other OEMs to allow things like firmware updates through SteamOS on more devices than just the Deck. I think then, we’d see $500 or less competing consoles to the Deck.
According to the logic of this video it costs Valve $0 to produce steam decks. Jeez, the Internet is so filled up with these unresearched, amateurish attempts at journalism.
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I would bet they’re basically losing money on the $399 model, but making money on the higher spec models. No other manufacturer has been able to offer similar performance at that low price point (yet).
Cost analysis estimates I’ve seen have them also taking a small loss on 256GB units, only making a profit on 512GB units.
They didn’t have official data though, they were mostly working backwards from taking the ifixit part costs and assuming ifixit used their standard markup.
Makes sense, Gabe said in an interview that making that $399 price point was “painful”. But I guess the point is that the Deck sales drive Steam game sales.
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I would bet that they aren’t losing as much money as other companies would. Valve made their own OS for the Steam Deck. Asus and Lenovo made similar devices, but they both run Windows and have to pay Microsoft licensing fees.
It’ll be really interesting if Valve opens up a partner program with other OEMs to allow things like firmware updates through SteamOS on more devices than just the Deck. I think then, we’d see $500 or less competing consoles to the Deck.
Windows licenses cost dick to Asus and Lenovo, they’re already OEMs.
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