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Edit: fixed the title to match the article, I wrongly stated that Valve said the price was supposed to be $750, when that's just IGN's estimate base on Valve's statements.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They said it would be cheaper than Index at the time, so no.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that makes sense. If that's the case, then a 1300 ish range seems pretty likely assuming comparable price increases

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we look at the Steam Deck, it got a ~43% price increase. If we apply that same increase to the $750 Index + controllers, you're looking at ~$1075.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well they didn't say launch price...

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They didn't say current price.

What are we doing here? This is all speculation anyway

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Haha that's fair.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea.... That was then.

If they had planned to have the machine at 750, then we can extrapolate from that a frame cost. Up from around 900.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea.... That was then.

Yeah... That's what you said?

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like 1200-1300 was probably likely before the price bump.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 1 points 22 hours ago

That wasn't from me. :)