• @[email protected]
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    06 months ago

    Now for only $333.33 you can get the steamdeck 3 with the 3 pack; half life 3, team fortress 3 and portal 3. Only available 3/3/33 💀

      • @[email protected]
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        06 months ago

        They don’t make money on their current Deck. Well, maybe now they do make a little but when it was designed other RDNA2 based systems were running around a grand.

        They’d lose more money on it, but depending on how many games Deck owners are buying in '33 they could make it up.

        • @[email protected]
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          06 months ago

          They didn’t lose money on it. It’s just that they made so little no other company would mess with making something like it for such small margins.

          • @[email protected]
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            06 months ago

            I just knew they said the price point was painful and I saw what other systems were selling for. I was making a guess about being a loss leader because consoles have done that in the past.

            • @[email protected]
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              06 months ago

              Yes. I’ve looked at a lot of production break downs of publicly traded companies before on what electronic and phone manufacturers pay in parts and it is so much cheaper than you would think some items could even be made for. They might have been losing a bit on the cheapest $360 one, but I’d bet they made a bit on the mid and top tier.

    • Monte
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      06 months ago

      For years I’ve been saying I will buy a new console just to play Portal 3.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      06 months ago

      $333.33 with 3 games at 2033 after the bazillion percent of inflation which is still cheaper than the first steamdeck launch price?

      I’ll have 2 episode 2.