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monocasa on July 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve Steam Deck

It's very common to sell game consoles at a loss. They make it back in game sales.

Koiwai on July 23, 2021 [–]

I said I don't believe, not I've never heard of that.

I think it's an urban legend fueled by marketing, I've never seen any hard proof of that, except some BOM calculations from independant analyse, but I don't think mass production work that way.

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