• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’ll keep my fingers crossed! 🤞

    However I kinda suspect it may be valve responding to all the gamers who have been saying they want the controller now, it doesn’t need ram so why wait to release it with the other products? I get that valve probably wanted to do a simultaneous release, but that just doesn’t seem possible any longer.

    • Rooster326@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      GabeN said himself the hardware division must stand on its own financially. He doesn’t want to subsidize it forever.

      To keep Hardware anywhere close to the black - they have to get money coming in. The controller can drop unaffected by the Ram crisis, and recently unaffected by the illegal tarifs