The Official Steam Deck Thread

[farlaff]

Captain_Yuri said:

farlaff said:

I wonder how they managed to achieve such a low price. The specs/cost ratio is insane, and I don't know how they managed to get, for instance, RAM at that rate.

Yea they are probably losing money on this but I think their goal is to push people towards Steam OS which why they are putting so much effort into the OS instead of using Windows. If they can get people to use Steam OS instead of Windows, then they would have full control like consoles do. But if not, then they will still make money off of people buying games on Steam and carve out a new segment in PC gaming. But that's just my theory anyway.

Agreed. I would like to know how much, in order to understand how that pricing is even possible. One other thing that I'm crazy curious about is to see how much better they are gonna make the OS, especially in the compatibility field, and how much devs are gonna optimize their games to run on it. In my mind, these are the keys for a healthy future, otherwise it is going to be way too complicated a system for the great public to embrace.