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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
100% this. Just last night I was marveling how my steam deck was only $500 (for the high-storage versoin). Thing is basically a graphics card with a controller attached, and it performs beautifully and is well worth it. Then, messing with the controls, I realized the joysticks can detect TOUCH (cool feature to allow gyro aiming for shooters but only when finger is touching the joystick).

I feel like there's no way valve isn't taking a loss on it, the hardware is incredible. (but, I suppose most consoles take a loss on hardware that they recover on software).
gpt
Steam deck gpu is equivelent of a gtx 950

If you're willing to use that, you can do it cheaper for a desktop