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Valve Deckard: Latest leak reveals early specifications of long-awaited Valve Index successor
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I think there's been a lot of inflation since the Index was released. As a very crude comparison, the Index was released roughly in between Nvidia's 20- and 30-series, and it seems like launch MSRPs have gone up 30-40% for the current 40- and 50-series. So if Valve only increases their VR headsets by 10% in the same time period, it could be seen as having become relatively cheaper :)
Well yeah But I always imagined the deckard to be a VR-steamdeck pricewise, Meaning: a relatively cheap VR headset for the masses! (Not excpecting 200€, but somewhere around 600)
I know oculus make cheap headsets, but they don't really feel like a first class citizen on PC... Plus facebook bad, you know 😅
I haven't looked into it so I'm just speculating, but I assumed Meta is selling their headsets at a loss to get users into their ecosystem, while Valve would want to make some profit from each sale. Looking at other high end PC VR headsets from Pimax, Varjo and HTC they also tend to be on the pricier side. The Deck was IMO surprisingly cheap, but I guess Valve probably thinks that it'll lead to more games sold on Steam, even though it isn't locked into the platform. Of course it would have been nice if Deckard was cheaper but I think €1200 is reasonable in this day and age. Though personally I think I would've preferred if it didn't have standalone capabilities, if that had made it a few hundred cheaper..