To a certain extent, this is the equivalent of being shocked that Intel discontinued 386 production. Or that Google is no longer manufacturing Pixel 3s. It’s the nature of the industry.
The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured
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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yes and no. Yes in that OLED is a mostly-better technology, but no in that having more price options is almost always better for the end user.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
If they’ve got their heart set on an LCD model, it looks like eBay has a number of secondhand ones.
I don’t own a Steam Deck or intend to — I have more than enough portable electric devices capable of running games that I lug around already — but if I were going to get one, it looks like the OLED model has a 25% larger battery, which would be interesting to me.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I fully agree. Industry is simply not set up for a sustainable model in which price-conscious consumers can stay in the game.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Yea the price jump of $400 to $550 kinda hurts.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
They had said on release (a few years ago) that they were selling the base model LCD just a bit above “at-cost” to try to break it into the market and capture share. It worked.
Now that RAM prices have >3x’ed, they would likely be selling that model at a significant loss if they keep manufacturing it. Completely logical move.
Bad for the consumer, but RAM being sucked up by shitty near-useless plagerism machines with the goal of replacing jobs for extra corporate profit is also bad for the consumer and probably a large part of the cause behind this production stop.