Just playing devil’s advocate here. I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but there are some interesting factors at play.
- The Steam Machine won’t need a screen or battery, two of the most expensive components on the Deck. So that can go into better CPU/GPU/RAM instead.
- Valve proved they can make a successful physical hardware product with the deck. That gives them a lot of negotiating power with AMD to get the best deal they can.
- Unlike with the Deck, they’re releasing the new gadgets in almost all major countries simultaneously. That means they’ve may have already started manufacturing months ago, and are benefiting from economy of scale at an entirely new level.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It’s newer hardware in a bigger form factor.
It should be 6x as powerful, that shouldn’t be a surprise.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The power is not a surprise because they said how powerful it will be. I never said anything to the contrary?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Sure, I should have clarified not surprised by the power or the price.
It makes sense that as more and more power becomes available, the price doesn’t necessarily have to increase.
Computers (especially CPUs/GPUs/SOCs etc) are becoming more and more powerful all the time, and more and more efficient all the time. It doesn’t mean that the price of them has to rise.
The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful doesn’t mean it should be more expensive than the most expensive version of the Steam Deck. The fact that it’s 6 times as powerful should be entirely expected.
Hopefully this is a detailed enough comment to clearly explain my thoughts on this.