Quoting: pete910

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: setzer22Valve is selling the deck at a loss because they can afford it,

I honestly doubt that.
This isn't a console that can make up for selling at a loss with absurd stuff like costs-to-play-online or generally overpriced games.
Nor is it going to bring it tons of new customers - I'd bet that 99% of buyers are Steam customers anyway.

Nail meet hammer...

My thoughts exactly, Not at all convinced the likes of M$/Sony sell them at a loss either.

Until any company release actual BOM of the devices it's all pure speculation/rumor.

Not sure why that's such an incredible claim, the concept of a loss leader [External Link] has been around—as in, documented that people and companies have done this exact thing—for at least half a century.

But hey, show me a list of components that produce a device with the same features and specs as the Steam Deck and which cost less than $400 and I'll believe it.

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"So you can now install Windows 10, and pretty soon Windows 11. Then you cannnn…do Windows stuff!" got a chuckle out of me. :grin:

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Quoting: GuestYeah you are deffo missing something. Looks like you're oversimplifying it, It's not as simple as just reporting it, you need to be able to proove it and youtube do a thorough investigation into the claim.

Ah, ok, thanks. It's not the same as a DMCA strike then. I wasn't oversimplifying on purpose. :smile:

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I kinda hope Valve comes up with some cute lock screen unlock system that isn't just a PIN—don't get me wrong, obviously that's good to have, and it probably should have shipped with a lock screen, but imagine if you had, like, a Portal-themed version of the "swipe these 9 dots" type of unlocking mechanism or something. "Turn the gyroscope to navigate a ball through this invisible 3D maze you design", I dunno. Something to take advantage of the form factor. :smile:

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Liam DaweAnother YouTuber got in touch, they've also issued a takedown request.

Nice one. All they need is 3 takedown requests within 90 days (they can all be from the same creator too) and GPD lose their whole youtube channel forever.

Really? Huh. That seems…abusable. Like, could I get LTT (say) taken down just by filing 3 takedown requests? Clearly there's some context or nuance I'm missing here.

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: setzer22Valve is selling the deck at a loss because they can afford it,

I honestly doubt that.
This isn't a console that can make up for selling at a loss with absurd stuff like costs-to-play-online or generally overpriced games.
Nor is it going to bring it tons of new customers - I'd bet that 99% of buyers are Steam customers anyway.

Maybe not the high end versions, but I'd be highly surprised if they're making much if anything on the 64 GB model. Anyone putting down a few hundred dollars on a Deck is almost certainly going to generate far more in game sales over the next few years than any lost revenue on the Deck sale*. They don't need new customers, per se; existing ones willing to buy more games (i.e., the majority of existing Steam users) are plenty. I guess you could make the argument that people would likely buy those games even without a Deck (for their existing systems), but it's also possible people buy games they wouldn't have, especially if they're buying the Deck to replace a low-spec laptop or something.

*I've probably spent over a hundred dollars on Steam each year for the last several years (e.g., in 2020 I picked up roughly one new game or DLC a month, and even though I tend to go for cheaper games that's probably $10-$20 each). And I've got a comparatively small library of less than 150 games because I'm very picky.

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Hopefully by the time I get my email in Q3 there'll be a ton of cool plugins to choose from!

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: GuestTime to get a faster printer so I can see my game being printed in real time.

At least 25 sheets per second!!!

I dunno, I find about 6–12 sheets per day gives me that classic "newspaper" feel. Back with life was more relaxed and people were less hurried, y'know? Why, back in my day…

You whippersnapper you! Back in my day...

Yes, yes, I know, the ink was still fresh on Gutenberg's type and you were lucky if you were able to illuminate one manuscript page a day… :tongue:

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Quoting: GuestTime to get a faster printer so I can see my game being printed in real time.

At least 25 sheets per second!!!

I dunno, I find about 6–12 sheets per day gives me that classic "newspaper" feel. Back when life was more relaxed and people were less hurried, y'know? Why, back in my day…

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"Tearing is left to the end user" got a laugh out of me. :grin:

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File picker improvements? Finally! The pain of having to manually select images for a mod in Steam Workshop by tediously traversing the entire file tree to their location from the default starting location deep in Steam's directories, one by one… :cry:

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