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PayPalOutspoken Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has recently taken to social media to throw shade at Valve / Gabe Newell over the new Steam Deck pricing. Sweeney hasn't exactly been a fan of Valve for some time, especially in recent years with the launch of the Epic Games Store.
Writing on X/Twitter, Sweeney said:
"Everyone’s being too harsh here. There has been a significant rise in the cost of components that Steam customer spending ultimately funds, and economic trends have created severe disruptions in the component parts supply chain for megayachts."
For those who don't get the reference, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has a bit of a love of super expensive yachts, going so far as to actually acquire the custom yacht building company Oceanco back in 2025. Newell also owns multiple rather expensive superyachts.
Not to stand up for Valve directly here but just to make a point (because we all know companies are not our friends) - but hold on a moment, isn't this the same CEO who forced over 1,000 people to look for work elsewhere after laying off a whole lot of people? Yes it is. Sweeney has also been quite vocal about support for generative AI, you know - that thing driving up prices of everything everywhere. So perhaps Sweeney is not exactly the best person to be throwing shade around like this.
Even with the price of the Steam Deck rising, it still ended up selling out again in multiple regions.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Johnologue 16 hours ago
"Guess what Ford, my company DOESN'T sell overpriced SUVs! Jim Farley? More like Jim Fartley, am I right gamers?"
Yeah Tim, we know. Now go back to giving out free games that people don't play and laying off people who might've caused your products and services to improve someday when you realize you're losing money for some reason.
StalePopcorn 12 hours ago
Sweeney could be kinda worse and pretty jealous though fwiw. Anybody still on X is asking for their brain to get irradiated and he seems no different.
GustyGhost 11 hours ago
Handheld gaming PCs: None
PC gaming consoles: None
VR headsets: None
Gaming controllers: None
Thank goodness that Valve are the ones setting these device standards because that means those which do actually exist support Linux. Can you imagine how awful things would be if Sweeney/Epic were the ones steering the industry?
Arehandoro 5 hours ago
noobdoomguy8658 2 hours ago
Life truly imitates arts when you see people like this. Just an ego-lead contrarian in charge of a big business that, if managed properly, could probably be very beloved and viewed as a viable, profitable, worthy alternative with at least something of its own to offer.
Past years have been so disechanting about leaders of all kinds, often mostly thanks to their own unyielding desire to show themselves to the world and have its attention, only to reveal their unbelievable incompetence and teenage mindset. I can't help but think that the leaders of before were the same kind of petty idiots that will do anything in their power to try and make everyone love them, or fear them, or respect them, so much so that they're willing to make total fools of themselves through nonsensical arguments and proofs and accusations, so many time they start to belive whatever they've been telling others, in the end losing their identity to this twisted version of a human being that is only repulsing and toxic and best put into some most non-leading, unharmful role with no power at all.
Yes, even Gabe. Sorry fanboys...
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