“I can’t tell you what the price will be, because I literally don’t know,” he said on the November 15 episode of the WAN show.
“When I said I’m disappointed it isn’t going to follow a console pricing model, where its subsided by the fact that manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel that would be a more meaningful product, they asked what I meant by console price and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great.”
The steam deck already has a dock that will hook it up to your TV, and bluetooth to use a wierless controller, or mouse + keyboard, plus the steam deck is 100% mobile. Steam deck is already console priced, with 3 different options depending on budget and needs. Who is their market? I already own a new self built PC, 2 older PCs, an older laptop, and a steam deck. I’m not dropping $ on this, (although I would if I had disposable income like that.) I’m not sure if their target audience is console players, or PC players that hate windows, but are not technologically savvy enough to install linux on their own machines? Edit: I feel like we saw all this go down in 2012-2014 with steam machines, and this seems like it will be a repeat. I want steam and valve to succeed here, but I don’t think they will in this market.