If there was something to be done to slash the price while not losing anything important like using an OS that is FREE… But alas, there’s no such thing, I guess we’ll have to stick with windows, adding the license price to a hardware that is already expensive…
That title is cringe as fuck. There’s nothing concerning about it at all. Market saw Steam Deck’s success so they dove in. Whether they survive is dependent on if they provide good price points or justification for a higher price. Super simple.
they’re also forgetting the touchpads. the touchpads are so fucking good, and they add so much usability and flexibility. so much, I think, that no amount of superior performance, resoution, or battery life can make up for the lack of them.
This is why I bought a deck oled even with the other more powerful handhelds already out.
I have the OLED too and it’s such an exceptional device. Works very well as a media PC too, especially with KDE Connect for controlling remotely from a smartphone
It’s so nice fr, it helps I had sorta “prepared” by learning Bazzite on my spare laptop prior, so got very familiar with the immutable aspects and flatpaks/appimages
I mean there will be customers for those products, I just don’t get why they’re leaving the mass appeal demographic on the table
Sell 15K units at 900 a pop, or sell 150K units at 500 a pop…
We don’t know the margins on these things but I’d think that higher volume sales would be better. But what do I know.
I just want something that I can play up to say Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 level emulation
“slowly”
