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[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

I mean, no one ever doubted Valve was a for profit company.

They aren’t going to sell a product if they don’t make a profit.

Obvious

They want to make more profit.

O don't think that's what's happening here, RAM prices are ridiculously high, and the Deck has RAM and SSD. We also know they're selling it close to cost so they wouldn't have been able to take the hit on those increases, and the price increase seems to be exactly what the components have increased in price.

They have the potential to enshitify at any moment.

That's also true, and something we should be weary of, but I don't think it's warranted on this case.

how is it different than Apple locking its customers in a walled garden?

Because their hardware is not locked. You can do whatever you want with your Deck. Wanna pirate games? Go ahead, wanna install windows in it? Be my guest. That's part of the reason why Valve can't sell these cheaper than manufacturing cost like most consoles are, because it's an open architecture people would just buy it in bulk to do servers and shit like they did with the PS3 before it was locked down for this exact reason.

What happens if they decide to make all the games you bought unavailable for licensing reasons? What happens if they shut down and suddenly all your games are gone What happens if they lock their hardware?

What happens if the government starts abducting children for their secret brainwashing institution? What happens if they shut down all personal own property? What happens if they lock all of the frontier?... Don't you think you're overreacting a little bit to RAM being more expensive and a product that has RAM becoming more expensive too?