I doubt they’d shadow drop it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they announced it then

There was never any chance for that. Quit deluding yourself

It also does significantly more than the original

One of the Game Mode overlays already has a timer in the top right corner that estimates your remaining battery life

I wish the alpakka 2’s kickstarted had exceeded. That would have been sweet

You seem to not understand what “profit” means.

Cars. Let’s ban them first, shall we?

We need walkable cities and ample public transit first.

Not disagreeing though. It’d be great to transition back to them in the US

Sure, a lot of this is likely funded by Fortnite

If it needs to be subsidized by Fortnite then it’s by definition not profitable

Why do people like you always have to defend what a company does all the time?

Because it’s pretty fucking obvious that the 12% cut was just Tim Swiney trying to grab market share for EGS without actually putting in the work to develop it.

Remember how it took over 2 years for them to add a cart? Remember how they just laid off 1000 employees? Using Fortnite money to pay for exclusive deals and game givaways instead of actually developing the store hasn’t turned out profitable.

Also, ever notice how nobody was complaining about Steam’s cut before that? And let’s not forget that Steam Greenlight and subsequent opening up of allowing nearly any game onto their platform is what made the indie market more than an extremely small niche. Or the fact that much of the 30% cut is getting reinvested into Linux and FOSS to keep PC gaming an open ecosystem, which benefits everyone, including indie studioa

Plus, their investment into Linux gaming and FOSS in general are preventing PC gaming from being locked down to a singled OS that becomes a walled garden.

Also note that nobody was saying this before Tim Swiney started trying to break into the marlet

They’re most likely all realeasing on the same day

The Steam Deck (and by extension any handheld) isn’t particularly great for 3D games due to the power limitations. Those games do generally run, but they either need lower resolution or lower framerates, and almost always drain the battery faster.

Wild Blue Skies looks like the sequel to Star Fox 64 that people have been waiting >20 years for

Multiple millions

they could afford to bribe their way out.

No, they don’t make a cent of profit. They can borrow enough money to bribe their way out, though right now they’re having trouble finding more investors with how much money they’re flushing down the drain.

This is a complete daydream, but what if this gets Valve to file an antitrust case against OpenAI?

They were supposedly able to take a loss on the original Steam Decks, at least the lower priced 64GB models.

They. Did. Not.

The only thing remotely suggesting that is GabeN saying the price point was “painful” in a single interview.

Valve has stated that the Steam Decl wasn’t sold at a loss. GabeN was likely referring to the profit margins being very low, which is not the same as selling at a loss

Why the hell can’t this myth just die already?

The problem is that these are computers. If they’re too cheap, companies will buy them in bulk, slap windows on them, and use them for office PCs. And if they’re sold at a loss, that then turns into a huge loss

You’re clearly intentionally arguing in bad faith if this is your response.

Ta ta, you’re not worth bothering with anymore. Go lie to someone else