u/iamthetot — iamthetot

Pistol Whip and Beat Saber are some of the most fun I've had in years. Not CA$1,700 amount of fun, though. 😭

"Narrative but VR", "simulation or strategy but VR" sound like novelties to me.

I don't think VR is for you mate, and that's okay.

Before tax.

I don't think you're in any position to guarantee that, and people should not spend $1,000+ on a feature that does not yet exist.

CA$1,529 for the 256gb, without hand straps. Gonna pass.

Your lips to Gabe's billionaire ears.

They might sell it near cost

Zero chance.

Take that with a huge grain of salt. There's some games that are Steam Deck verified that are... dubious at best.

Well, it's not running natively on the Steam Deck. They're either emulating the OG, or streaming from PS5.

My account is in its teens and I have over a thousand games. They would not cover my broken LB, only a few months outside warranty.

Competition is good for consumers.

It's like 50% broken. I can still activate it but only from a specific angle and it's not as clicky.

Back when the news dropped that they were potentially dropping the replacement parts for LCD, the news was focused on the battery. However mine needs a new LB, so I had been looking at that. Those also increased in price around the same time, nearly 150%.

Small nitpick, but *any* company that produces a product is *also* going to sell that product, they just may not be selling it directly to consumers. Companies that are selling to other companies still have someone in charge of doing that. Otherwise they wouldn't make any money on the things they produce.

Look, I want it bad. It was actually the one I was most excited about, a little bit more than the controller.

But, yeah. Look at every tech release of the past four years. Look at SSD and RAM prices. Hell even spinning platter drives. Everything has a wait list, or gobbled up by scalpers. And if you do win the wait list lottery, it's going to cost a goddamn arm and leg. It's depressing man.

Makes me wonder how much of it was bad timing.

Goddamn, it's two and a half times more expensive than the last time I looked at one. And many other parts are just full out of stock.

Article really only mentions battery. My LCD model has needed a replacement LB for a while, and I've been putting it off. Looks like maybe I shouldn't do that now

Why don't you blame Valve particularly?

iFixit said: "To add clarity: it’s not that we’re choosing to not stock these anymore. Unfortunately, Valve is just starting to sunset these parts."

SteamOS in seems to have references to the deck all over the place, if I recall correctly from the GN video I watched. It was one of their criticisms. Overall I'm not sure it was really fully baked before shipping.