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[–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Valve originally expected to lose money on every Steam Deck sold, but thanks to high volume of units sold and other factors this ended up not being the case.

Link? I thought they never confirmed whether they were making a profit on hardware or not

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago

    I'm not sure they ever said it explicitly, but they said that selling the original 64GB LCD deck for $400 was a "painful" price point, and there were hardware pricing estimates that guessed each steam deck cost Valve around $500-550 at launch. It's been awhile since I looked at it, I'll see if I can get some of the relevant quotes together.

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