No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah I’m thinking that it’ll be around $500 to $600 for the base model and maybe $550 to $650 for the two terabyte model. After all its upgradable so there’s not really any point them trying to price gouge anyone on the storage.

    The general consensus I’ve seen from people is that it will be sub 1K simply because they know it has to be in order to be profitable. The only people who think it’s going to be over 1k seem to be people who don’t actually know that it’s not really a super powerful system, they advertised it as being seven times more powerful than the steam deck, but the steam deck itself is not exactly a powerhouse in fact the switch 2 is more powerful.

    You’re paying for the fact that it’s tiny, the fact that it’s not a window system, and for the convenience of just being able to throw some money at someone and have a fairly decent gaming system without having to mock about in the weeds, because a lot of people don’t like that aspect of PC building.

    • David_Eight@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, that all sounds reasonable.

      Personally, I think Valve should price the SM as low as possible since they might have a real chance of replacing Xbox in the console market. Maybe they’ll lower prices after they have proof of demand like with the Steam Deck OLED?