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Valve on the Steam Frame: 'I wish we could have shipped it at the price that we were at last year' (www.pcgamer.com)
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t's certainly been a journey for Valve. A week prior to the Steam Frame's launch, we spoke with two engineers at Valve about the project: Joy Lyons, hardware engineer, and Jeremy Selan, software engineer. The memory crisis and the price were a big part of that conversation. From that chat, we can confirm that Valve had aimed for a lower price point than the one it's launching the Frame for today.

Here's Lyons on the memory crisis:

"We set out to design this hardware with one particular price in mind, but we've made choices to make sure that we're making a product that is choiceful, that people can purchase, they can upgrade with different features later. But we wanted to make sure we had a base product with really great performance. Then that price target shifted due to the ongoing RAM crisis around the world."

Lyons also said that forecasting for the cost of certain components used in the Steam Frame is an ongoing challenge.

Not exactly boding well of the Steam Deck 2.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

People don't have a spare thousand dollars... They just don't.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A lot of people do have that. There are those who do and are willing to pay out the nose for tech toys to dull the pain.

I mean just look at the current sale of GPU's.

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, that's why they're having to limit purchases to make sure the scalpers don't get them all

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some people saved since the announcement a year ago.