To Newell “painful” probably means one less annual yacht’s worth of profit.
The only actual quote here is
Price point was secondary and painful. But that was pretty clearly a critical aspect to it.
But Newell didn't actually say it was at a loss, did he? Seems like they're just speculating.
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
myspecialpurpose@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
You picked one quote out of both those articles to interpret as your counter to my point? Seems to me this isn’t even an argument. It’s a consensus among anyone that understands the cost of building that device. Amazing that your response to me providing sources is “But the owner didn’t say it explicitly, so it doesn’t count.” Are you 12 years old? Why don’t you provide some sources about how profitable the steam deck was?
missingno@fedia.io 47 minutes ago
I picked the quote that's actually attributed to Gabe. The second link you gave doesn't even have any quotes at all.
It doesn't sound like Valve actually did confirm this, but that some news outlets ran with a rumor.
myspecialpurpose@lemmy.ca 2 minutes ago
Hey if you wanna interpret Gabe’s quotes of aggressive and painful pricing as something other than a loss or close to a loss as I said in my comment, while ignoring the theoretical cost of building a device like that, and the precedent set by so many other companies trying to break into a market like that, there’s nothing else I can say to get you off “winning” this argument. So yeah, I’m sure you’re right. I’m sure Valve is just banking on a bunch of existing steam users to want to buy a $700–$800 mid range box so they don’t have to move their PC into their living room to game on the couch. Solid business model.