Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzM to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 13 hours agoWhen the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"www.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down15
arrow-up1366arrow-down1external-linkWhen the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"www.gamesradar.comFubarberry@sopuli.xyzM to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squarejohn117@lemmy.jmsquared.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 hours agothis is how I know you’ve never created anything, lol. lots of times, you fail at making something, but you learn from those failures. who knows what other projects they threw money at and failed, the only one I can think of rn were the steam machines. I’m sure they learned from those mistakes, tried again, and here we are with the steam deck
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·40 minutes ago this is how I know you’ve never created anything So I suppose you spend millions funding engineers to create products as personal toys with no intention of selling any of them?
minus-squarejohn117@lemmy.jmsquared.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 minutes agothats called R&D. I don’t personally spend millions of dollars, but I do spend money on things that never pan out but teach me a lot of lessons I can apply to my next project
this is how I know you’ve never created anything, lol. lots of times, you fail at making something, but you learn from those failures.
who knows what other projects they threw money at and failed, the only one I can think of rn were the steam machines.
I’m sure they learned from those mistakes, tried again, and here we are with the steam deck
So I suppose you spend millions funding engineers to create products as personal toys with no intention of selling any of them?
thats called R&D. I don’t personally spend millions of dollars, but I do spend money on things that never pan out but teach me a lot of lessons I can apply to my next project