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Predict the price for the Steam Machine

under 300 0 0%
 
300 to 499 2 3.77%
 
500 to 699 9 16.98%
 
600 to 799 17 32.08%
 
800 to 1000 22 41.51%
 
1000 to 1200 3 5.66%
 
1200 to 1500 0 0%
 
over 1500 0 0%
 
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Zkuq 16 hours ago
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Manlytears said:

If it's anything close to $800 > DOA, there is no place in the market for this thing.

With the current RAM prices, that would almost be a steal now

I was just wondering how Valve is going to price this, just because of RAM prices. There's probably no good price for this: too high, and no one's buying, and too low, and it'll make a loss for Valve. It's a terrible time to launch a new product, unless you have a sufficiently long-term deal for RAM.



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Manlytears 13 hours ago
Zkuq said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

With the current RAM prices, that would almost be a steal now

I was just wondering how Valve is going to price this, just because of RAM prices. There's probably no good price for this: too high, and no one's buying, and too low, and it'll make a loss for Valve. It's a terrible time to launch a new product, unless you have a sufficiently long-term deal for RAM.

0% chance Valve has a good deal for ram. Even if they somehow anticipated the Ram price "Armageddon", they are not building +10M Gabenboxes in the first year to guarantee a deal at low price.

This boy will be at least $600, maybe even $800.



Zkuq 12 hours ago
Manlytears said:
Zkuq said:

I was just wondering how Valve is going to price this, just because of RAM prices. There's probably no good price for this: too high, and no one's buying, and too low, and it'll make a loss for Valve. It's a terrible time to launch a new product, unless you have a sufficiently long-term deal for RAM.

0% chance Valve has a good deal for ram. Even if they somehow anticipated the Ram price "Armageddon", they are not building +10M Gabenboxes in the first year to guarantee a deal at low price.

This boy will be at least $600, maybe even $800.

I'm not sure they even need a huge number of units to get a suitable deal, they would just have to lock it down well in advance. They might have done just that... but I wouldn't really count on it (at all).