| ▲ | sambaumann a day ago |
| In their video today, they said they asked Valve the original pricing, and they said (paraphrasing) "we can't tell you exactly - but the increase we recently had on the steam deck is about how much the pricing for machine increased" - which is how they came up with the $800 number |
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| ▲ | kuschku a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Depends on if the Valve employee meant percentage increase (+50%) or dollar increase (+$200). That's set the steam machine at either $650 or $800, depending on which interpretation you're using. |
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| ▲ | arijun a day ago | parent [-] | | Why would it be the same percentage increase? RAM is only one component of the whole machine. "We were going to sell our airplane for $10 million, but one screw doubled in price so now we're selling it for $20 million." | | |
| ▲ | kuschku a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Because it's not just one screw, at the moment RAM, flash and GPUs are experiencing massive price increases. And in both machines a similar percentage of their price is caused by these components. | | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | >GPUs AMD GPU's are all still basically MSRP. You can get a 9070 for $600 off amazon right now. |
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| ▲ | brailsafe a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because of the proportion of the two critical component increases as a part of the whole. It's not like a screw, more like the propeller or something. I just bought ram at retail price, and in my currency it went from $100 to $600CAD for 32Gb. I can't even justify a nvme drive at this point, the prices are comical. | | |
| ▲ | kuschku 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | I built my current computer in 2020, went from part-time junior engineer to full-time senior engineer, and I couldn't afford to replace that computer at the same specs today. It's unbelievable. I couldn't afford to replace my current NVMe drives (which is why I'm very happy I set everything up with the Samsung 970 Pro, as they're 2-bit drives that will outlast even my grandchildren). I actually had to RMA some RAM yesterday, and even that has gotten so expensive that it now costs more than my entire computer cost in 2020. |
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| ▲ | ErneX a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yup, and another source: https://bsky.app/profile/papapishu.bsky.social/post/3movfklq... |
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| ▲ | Insanity a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ohh, I thought it was in their earlier videos. I did not see they released one today lol, my bad! |
