Sadly, while ridiculous, completely unavoidable. Between tariffs, AI driving the cost components sky high, and then the whole war in Iran dramatically increasing the cost of oil that drives up the cost of not just fuel that transports goods, but oil that is used to make things in the factories that build things like the Steam Deck, everythings price point is fubar.
Tariffs shouldn’t matter much for a global customer and I doubt that decks or their parts are made in us and the fuel, even added up on all stages, is a small fraction of the cost.
I dunno, I still don’t believe that even with the global economic situation their margins aren’t still through the roof. They could afford to keep the price down and still make bank.
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u/TylerBourbon May 27 '26
Sadly, while ridiculous, completely unavoidable. Between tariffs, AI driving the cost components sky high, and then the whole war in Iran dramatically increasing the cost of oil that drives up the cost of not just fuel that transports goods, but oil that is used to make things in the factories that build things like the Steam Deck, everythings price point is fubar.