Can everyone please stop claiming and speculating that Valve’s new hardware will be loss leaders? If you watch LTT and Gamers Nexus’s first videos on the announcement, they actually spoke with Valve’s engineers. And the Valve representatives already said that the new hardware WILL NOT BE LOSS LEADERS.

There isn’t even evidence that the Steam Deck was a loss leader. All GabeN said was that the lowest cost launch model was priced “painfully”, which doesn’t necessarily mean it was sold at a loss, it could easily have been sold at a very tight margin.

And no, low margins does not meet the definition of a loss leader. A loss leader is a product sold below cost, in that every unit sold actually costs the seller money.

I get the desire to speculate on new hardware. It’s fun and it helps pass the time until we hear more info from Valve. But there’s limits to what is reasonable. Valve has already stated that the new hardware won’t be loss leaders, so hoping and/or claiming they are isn’t reasonable.

Sorry for the rant, but all of the comments that seem to have only skimmed headlines are quickly getting to me

  • SpaciousCoder78@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Tbh I’m going for the steam deck due to its portability and ability to play my existing library. I’ve made some life decisions that will make me travel a lot around countries or states so steam deck is the perfect pick for me. I don’t really play more than 1-3 games that I play everyday and all of them run perfectly on the deck.

    Earlier I thought of going for a PS5/6 but it wasn’t really economical plus given my frequent rate of travel, its not feasible.

    Right now, I play my games on a Thinkpad that struggles to do a lot of multi tasking stuff. Its only 2 years old but took a bad beating in terms of performance. I’m gonna get the last juice out of this laptop and continue my gaming on the deck