There’s a massive difference between being able to get the quantity to serve the small number of people willing to tinker and buy niche controllers and being able to get the quantity to serve a mass market.
Yes - there is. It’s cheaper when you’re Valve and designing the product yourself, rather than being a small third party trying to buy the modules and retrofit them into an existing design, convincing enough people to buy a product that requires disassembly.
This wasn’t the counter argument you thought it was.
It’s not cheaper if the manufacturing capacity literally doesn’t exist. You can’t just wave a magic wand and have a company be capable of making millions of units.
Edit: It took several months after launch to clear the backlog and allow people to just order a Steam Deck, and it got occasionally backordered for several more months in some markets after that. Adding the constraint of being supply limited on joysticks would have almost definitely made that worse.
I will, when there are cheap third party controllers that have hall effect, and some random company managed to make them for the Steam Deck itself.
There’s a massive difference between being able to get the quantity to serve the small number of people willing to tinker and buy niche controllers and being able to get the quantity to serve a mass market.
Yes - there is. It’s cheaper when you’re Valve and designing the product yourself, rather than being a small third party trying to buy the modules and retrofit them into an existing design, convincing enough people to buy a product that requires disassembly.
This wasn’t the counter argument you thought it was.
It’s not cheaper if the manufacturing capacity literally doesn’t exist. You can’t just wave a magic wand and have a company be capable of making millions of units.
Edit: It took several months after launch to clear the backlog and allow people to just order a Steam Deck, and it got occasionally backordered for several more months in some markets after that. Adding the constraint of being supply limited on joysticks would have almost definitely made that worse.
Dude, no need to be a dick about it. You made your point, the dunk undermines it.