I mean, that's just not true, unless you think that because the cost of parts is under msrp that it's sold at a profit. From the retailer's cut alone, it's above $450, nintendo generally prices hardware to be at a loss, but break even with 1 first party game sale. Sony also doesn't have the luxury to sell it at an extreme loss, their profit margins are in the dirt, and the new boss over the division from corporate specifically cited part of her plan was to cut costs and increase profitability of launches. Sony's not about to sell it at a $350 loss after that.
We have a shocking amount of evidence in this thread that says otherwise.
The most expensive part of a handheld is the Chip itself. Screens aren't really expensive since they've drastically come down in price with the emergence of smartphones and tablets.
This article was from 2017, even during that time it wasn't expensive to make a small tablet with an outdated 2013 SoC and controllers. Nintendo started making profit on their consoles beginning with the Wii, the Gamecube was the last console that was adhering to the traditional loss leader rules.
Again, I doubt the existence of a standalone VR headset when the codename is after a Bladerunner character which for all intents and purposes sounds like a coincidence from some guy stirring up baseless rumors and unintentionally extending the name of the "Deck" to "Deckard"
Its a code name, the controllers are Roy (as in Batty), its intentional. A ton of details have leaked such as design patents, and even a ton of stuff like actual controller models were leaked in a SteamVR update, also ARM compatibility layer stuff in Proton, which could be massive. It's real, it just won't actually be called Deckard when released.
Sony is in the business of selling billions of third party games, not selling low volume overpriced hardware that 10 people in total will buy.
>playstation has hardly any games
psvr2 says hello.
I don't know why you think playstation has no games when the catalog is identical to Steam minus the match 3 porn games and pixelshit shovelware
Im surprised you didn't get the memo 6-7 years ago when Epic was buying exclusivity to their storefront while giving away free games yet Steam users wouldn't budge or bother signing up
I don't think that's much of an issue to either 1) Idorts or 2) normalfaggots on console with steam on their laptops.
That's not really accurate because shovelware plats on PSN/puzzle porn games on steam can both be completed in minutes meanwhile paradox/civilization/strategy games have 700 trophies each so no one bothers to complete them and on the console side you have cod&fifa selling 50 million copies annually for the multiplayer and no one caring about completing them.
Soulslike also has a higher completion rate on PS so to me it sounds like you want to move the goalposts because a lot of Steam users do shopping sprees during the winter/summer sale and never bother playing the game so it rots in their libraries.
The first Steam Deck was launched in February 2022, so it's just over three years old now. Valve's got some time before these new portables his the market, and they can afford to launch a Steam Deck successor last in that "generation," especially since the Switch 2 is a known quantity and both MS and Sony are practically guaranteed to produce overpriced pieces of shit because they seem deathly allergic to making intelligent decisions. Valve can afford to wait for their competitors' consoles to drop, tweak their own hardware as needed and then go full-blast on a product launch of a superior console.
The entire series? How much of that is Forbidden West? How much of that is the VR spinoff? How much of that is the fucking LEGO game? I'd bet most of the sales came from Zero Dawn, and anything after sold like shit.
It isn't already? Xbox's graphics API is DirectX, which is Windows exclusive. Are you telling me that it's going to be more like Windows to the point where I can open shit like the Task Manager?
Valve tries to wait for a good chip upgrade from AMD. Considering that the Switch 2's hardware is already old, 8nm while Steam Deck OLED, PS5 Pro, is at 7/6nm, while that doesn't mean too much to most normies since raw power is way better it means that it's way less efficient on battery. I think we'll get a Steam Deck 2 maybe 2 years after Switch 2.
The "Nvidia App" is for driver updates and automatically changing game graphics settings, Nvidia Control Panel is still seperate. Still hilarious that you need to send your ID to... know when you need to update your drivers?PC players cant access graphic card settings because age restriction, there goes the 'NOT' being cucked
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I imagine they just want to expand gamepass subscriptions and then intend to gradually increase the subscription price.
