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Steam Deck

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[โ€“] dlove67@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was only talking about your claim that they're selling at a loss, nothing about success or not.

We don't know their BOM so its speculation that they're taking a loss. (Unless I misunderstood your claim)

[โ€“] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I mean the overall loss. Not selling at a loss from a manufacturing point but a loss on the development and research of a console. They spent years just designing and building prototypes of the Steam Deck. It is an assumption but I think a fair one to say that they've yet to make their money back from those costs to break into the console industry.