Uhhhh this one. The Index launched at $1000 in 2019. If we didn’t live in rampocalypse, I would have expected it to be around $1000 again. But we live in rampocalypse, so $1500 doesn’t feel as bad but it’s still more than most of us are willing to pay.
Truth.
It low-key feels like there’s an audience of gamers that think Valve is trying to gouge them or something. As if they don’t know how much work valve company has put in to making games as affordable as possible.
Wait until they learn how much resource Valve put into Waydroid/Lepton, FEX and Proton, and then just gave away to the world completely gratis, as open source. In a world where our hardware has always been subsidized by whatever platform company was trying to wall us into the garden, we need to have honest and frank conversations about supply chain dynamics.
That often isn’t possible with iPad folks, and I’m beginning to think my Steam account is older than some of the people flinging you downvotes out here.
In which world is it exorbitant
Uhhhh this one. The Index launched at $1000 in 2019. If we didn’t live in rampocalypse, I would have expected it to be around $1000 again. But we live in rampocalypse, so $1500 doesn’t feel as bad but it’s still more than most of us are willing to pay.
Yeah, well said. This unfortunately
I would rather wait a few more years for a refurbished steam be headset or buy a more affordable refurbished vr headset from another company
The valve index can’t run any games on its own
That’s a cool new feature, but I think we all kinda know that Valve didn’t want to be selling this thing at $1500.
Truth. It low-key feels like there’s an audience of gamers that think Valve is trying to gouge them or something. As if they don’t know how much work valve company has put in to making games as affordable as possible.
Wait until they learn how much resource Valve put into Waydroid/Lepton, FEX and Proton, and then just gave away to the world completely gratis, as open source. In a world where our hardware has always been subsidized by whatever platform company was trying to wall us into the garden, we need to have honest and frank conversations about supply chain dynamics.
That often isn’t possible with iPad folks, and I’m beginning to think my Steam account is older than some of the people flinging you downvotes out here.