They don’t have the means to produce at scale, which has resulted in wild price fluctuations on their end. (even though to steamdeck OLED did sell out at the much higher price.) To me at most they will continue with the controller, but that’s about it.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 days ago

    They don’t have the means to produce at scale…steamdeck OLED

    They aren’t going to be manufacturing it themselves. They’ll pay someone else to make it.

    And I’d bet that that party isn’t limited by their own capacity, but by how many units Valve’s ordered, which is going to be limited by how many units that Valve thinks the public will buy at current elevated-by-memory-prices rates.

    EDIT: Sounds like their manufacturer is Quanta Computer, in Taiwan.

    EDIT2: And they probably aren’t constrained by their own capacity:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lam

    Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard,[13] Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba.[citation needed] It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide[14] and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.[15]