• Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I would bet that they aren’t losing as much money as other companies would. Valve made their own OS for the Steam Deck. Asus and Lenovo made similar devices, but they both run Windows and have to pay Microsoft licensing fees.

    It’ll be really interesting if Valve opens up a partner program with other OEMs to allow things like firmware updates through SteamOS on more devices than just the Deck. I think then, we’d see $500 or less competing consoles to the Deck.

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        1 year ago

        One could make the case that SteamOS is actually a massive cost because they had to mostly develop it themselves. Not to mention Proton.

        But then those other OEMs make their own GUIs also.

        Not sure which one cost more…