Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
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[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
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Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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They must already have stock in their warehouse, so they can just set the right price.
And for the next batch they set the price again.
So I meant less pre-order and more let people order in batches with adjusted price.
I don't think Valve has stock in warehouse already, I doubt that. They need to figure out pricing before committing. This is not a situation like Nintendo Switch, where they need to have millions at launch and more and be sure to sell them all. Also other companies get better deals and probably Valve needs to wait, or pay more to have higher priority to build them.
Of course they already have stock, the original launch date was Q1 2026 (which ends in 3 weeks). They might not have a ton of devices, but they do have stock. Same way they have been sending out dev kits.
RAM has spiked since November/December, before that it was cheap. I got my 2x32 GB 6000 CL30 RAM for 200€.
Valve has the issue that they could deliver the first batch for "cheap", but then every unit they produce afterwards suddenly costs a chunk more (like 200-300€). So it's either a paper launch or they'd have to raise the price above the Index, which won't lead to good PR.