• jinwk00@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Doubt the price and support would be any helpful over Steam Decks

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    10 months ago

    I don’t understand why Valve would allow this. Wouldn’t this be a direct competitor to the Steam Deck, even if it at a lower price point?

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      10 months ago

      Valve made the steam deck to encourage other device makers to follow suite.

      They’re trying to bootstrap a new market segment. They don’t actually want to be a hardware company. They want to sell games. Lots, and lots of games.

      They’re providing all they can to help other manufacturers come onboard, so they can sell games, and make wads of sweet cash.

      They never hid it. They were clear about it from the start.

      The deck is a proof of concept for the industry to follow.

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        They don’t actually want to be a hardware company. They want to sell games. Lots, and lots of games.

        They’re providing all they can to help other manufacturers come onboard, so they can sell games, and make wads of sweet cash.

        That’s genius!

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        10 months ago

        And that’s Valve’s ultimate motive, to have as many handhelds(and PCs) to use SteamOS and distance themselves from Windows Microsoft.