I love you, I truly do. You created a device that was just objectively better and had to have cost more money to make but didnt raise the price a single penny, in fact you even lowered the price. I don’t think anyone understands how unheard of that is in the tech and gaming industry and it’s obviously because they know we’re gonna spend twice as much on games for the deck, but valve still kept the prices the same. I cannot wait to see what you have in store for this devices next iteration but I can say, please feel free to take your time with it and understand that as long as you continue this respect and care for your fan base we will always support and contribute to your company, thank you from gamers everywhere(except Australia, hopefully you can work on that lol) Thank you Valve! Cant wait for my oled steam deck to come in!
This is the one company that the whole, “Corporations aren’t your friend” Schtick doesn’t entirely apply to. I mean, they don’t care about you specifically, but gamers as a whole, they definitely care. Valve is our friend, in a world of EAs, Nintendos, and Activisions, Valve is our friend.
Well, to be fair, they have a monopoly on the PC gaming space and pissing people off isn’t something they want to risk when they don’t have to. That being said, you should never treat a company as a friend.
Yeah, there should be a degree of separation on that account, they aren’t your friend. But you, as a “gamer” should know that Valve is a friend.
hij this is gaben’s burner. I love you too <3 ooxxooXoXXx
Damn, some of these comments are going hard lmao
I just Valve gives more of a heads up on when a Steam Deck 2 or Steam Deck 2 refresh happens.
Cooperate shill #ThankYouValve
Oh we all knew SteamDeck would be awesome and that SteamDeck 2 will be even more awesomer but that SteamDeck 3 - thats never gonna happen unfortunately…
They will release it and call it steam deck 2.9 and then the next one will be Steam deck 4
And the fact that they permanently lowered further the price of an older version device (though not that old and outdated) is a power move. Fuck Nintendo and Sony.
I don’t think it’s fair to say they lowered the price because they love you guys although it’s great marketing. Unlike the console market has had the casuals by the balls due to pure simplicity, valve does not have that, atleast not in the same sense. Valve did this because they want to strengthen their position in the pc gaming market and outside of making their platform stronger little by little, the best moves they can do now is make huge lateral innovations. They will make their money back just through pc game sales. That being said I still love valve but I also want to still keep them on arms length as they are still a corporation. Never forget when they wanted mods to cost money and wanted 25%
brand is my only friend
It’s not really unheard of is it? We’ve seen mid gen refreshes from the major companies plenty of times be at the same price as original. Even looking outside of gaming the phone industry produces upgraded products every year without price changes.
Indeed - it’s absolutely standard behaviour. I’ve no idea what OP is on about.
not only australia. they ignore most of the world
I don’t think they ignored you guys, they just have limitations in those areas.
Luckily I live in a good country (Germany)
The reason why Deck OLED isn’t more expensive is for 2 reasons. First of all they make money on software, Steam, they most likely seen steam growth with the release of Deck. I know I bought more games on Steam since the Deck. 2nd of all the Deck APU was shrunk making it less expensive to produce, the APU is also a generation old, you have stronger ones like Z1 Extreme now. Releasing a refresh that’s superior is nothing new we had this with DS Lite, GBA SP etc. it’s just Nintendo basically got greedy with Switch OLED. If Deck OLED was way more powerful and they charge the same price is agree. £480 for something that’s a generational old isnt exactly a bargain when you have Asus and Lenovo offering things like detachable controls,.VRR 1080p, more power for £700 and they don’t make money on software.
On god.
They gave me the new console release excitement back!
Doesn’t matter what ppl say Valve is for the people. I cant wait to get my OLED device. I will always support Valve. Respect!