• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I’d say updating the deck every year may hurt sales too, because why buy the deck now when you know a new, better one is only 6 months away?

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      I don’t think it would hurt sales, exactly, but I doubt it would be cost-effective to keep redoing them. People would still buy, but like you said, some people might wait, and that means the old ones go unsold, meaning Valve can’t recoup that investment.

      I mean, Valve has more money than they know what to do with, but I imagine they’d like to keep it that way.

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    Good. It sucks when companies make you always have to get the latest and greatest hardware if you want the new features that, it turns out, run perfectly fine on the old hardware (once someone hacks it).