Sales For Steam Deck at GameStop

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Talking with a GameStop Employee today there was some hype on potental of SteamDeck being sold at GameStops.

i think this is a great idea, because i told the Employee it is to much of a pain to order a steam deck via steam directly, with all the trouble of credit card, varifications, and shipping issues.

I expressed how much better it would be if i could just grab a Steam deck at a game stop on a whim, and how much more i would be inclinded to make the purchase.

The Employee also said to me he had a steam deck for about 4 months and recommended i should get one if i like Pc. I asked him some questions and overall he said he liked his steam deck, it was rather refreshing to get a real opinion from a steam deck user.

I look forward to steam sending out Steam Decks to GameStops, I think something like 5 or 10 steam decks to each gamestop store would be interesting and i am sure they would sell rather quickly. Send more to bigger populated area's.

Keep in mind competitors are selling at other retails, i think steam needs to get its device to the console players, it would open up steam deck to alot of console kids.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Let Australia get them through EBGames first. They deserve it.

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im pretty sure EBGames is Gamestop, they just merged and Gamestop over took EBgames in the USA, last i heard anyway.

Why Let Australia get them? there are plently of american kids who have not yet been exposed to steam , or pcs, they are feeding the Nintendo and sony consoles billions, steam has a shot at getting itself into the market with console players and offering a chance to bring alot of users into a more mainstream linux based O.S.

spending money is pretty easy when you got 100's in cash or a credit card to swipe and can take it home with you the same day, vs wanting to put all your information into a website and wait several weeks to get the item.

Then hope it doesn't get stolen in transit or just simply "lost In the mail"

Steam could always send a few decks to each store and set up a order system via game stop, so customers could pay through game stop and steam could then send the item to the shop, it just makes it safer and gives customers a extra layer of protection.

keep in mind places like game stop don't take returns on console systems they would not take a return on a steam deck either, but at least the purchaser would get the item they bought.

[Haruspex]

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Why Let Australia get them? there are plently of american kids who have not yet been exposed to steam , or pcs, they are feeding the Nintendo and sony consoles billions, steam has a shot at getting itself into the market with console players and offering a chance to bring alot of users into a more mainstream linux based O.S.

Because lots of Steam-using Australians would really love to buy a Steam Deck, and it still hasn't been offered there. Previously, Valve partnered with EB Games to sell the Index in Australia, so there's precedent.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

People in the US can purchase it right now, through Steam.

People in Australia can only purchase scalper ones.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm saying a priority should be for places that can't get it officially, like Asia did through Komodo.

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ok so sell them all over? better sell them quick though, they are starting to get pushed into the hardware graveyard, new computer sets are out , 32gigs the normal for DDR5 systems

64 gig DDR5 set ups are pretty cheap, under 1000 dollars for anyone who can build a pc, and we are talking top of the line I9 intel and 12GB dedicated Graphic cards.

pricing a system recently without the added fringes you could do it for under 1000 dollars.

steam deck for 350.00 - 500.00 at game stop would be great to see, it would give nintendo and ps5 some competition and might even get some good sales.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Better to have remaining available stock go to where they aren't available before adding more place to get them in places that already have them available.

And prices at retail might not be the same as on Steam. Unless Valve wants to lose more money per sale.

[Brian9824]

Yep units sold at GameStop would result in less profit per unit sold or even result in a loss unless they increase the price,

As stated much easier to sell them in bulk to Australia, anyone who wanted one could easily get it via steam already. Buying an item via credit card and having it shipped isn't exactly challenging.....

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ok but why would you not want to get the product out to more people.

so you might lose like 5% profit over all but you make the sale, plus it sets up a repeat customer who is going to buy things on the steam market place.

also and in the future with steam deck 2 you want to get people into buying steam decks so when steam deck 2 comes out in say 2 or 3 years people want to jump on that, at the same rate they do with ps and nintendo consoles.

its all about marketing and you can't market something that doesn't have exposed user groups.

ultimately and i see this every day, you are better off selling alot of something for cheaper, then a few expensive items. selling 100 items for 80% is better then selling 20 items at 100%

in steam decks case

100 items at 350 - its 35,000 dollars
at 20 items at 450 dollars is only 9,000 dollars

i don't think it costs steam 24,000 dollars to make 80 steam decks.

if they can't make a steam deck for under 300 dollars each there is no point in selling them. due to time factors any potental inventory is rapidly losing value due to hardware depreciation

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It is still getting the product out to more people. That doesn't change at all.

It would finally be officially available in Australia rather than another place in the US, when they already have access to them, officially.

[76561199502155650]

steams not getting my sale via the steam market place, steam would have a potential to get my sale from gamestop, and many other people, ultimately i guess its up to steam do they want to sell the product or not.

you can say its selling all you like, but today was the first time i actually talked to a real person who said they had a steam deck.

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ok but why would you not want to get the product out to more people.

It wouldn't get out to "more people". They literally can't manufacture enough of them to keep up with demand. Their Deck sales could not be any higher than they are. They don't need to reach out to new markets if every Deck they manufacture sells instantly.

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so you might lose like 5% profit over all but you make the sale

They're already making ALL the sales, it would make no sense to lose a cut of the profits.

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plus it sets up a repeat customer who is going to buy things on the steam market place.

Wouldn't all Deck sales do that?

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ultimately and i see this every day, you are better off selling alot of something for cheaper, then a few expensive items. selling 100 items for 80% is better then selling 20 items at 100%

But that's irrelevant if they're already selling 100% of what they're producing. They don't need to reduce the price to sell more because they're already selling them all. I feel like this can not be stressed enough.

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steams not getting my sale via the steam market place,

But they're getting the sale anyway.

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steams not getting my sale via the steam market place, steam would have a potential to get my sale from gamestop, and many other people, ultimately i guess its up to steam do they want to sell the product or not.

you can say its selling all you like, but today was the first time i actually talked to a real person who said they had a steam deck.

Except for anyone you see with a Deck exclusive profile. Or others who have flat out told you they own one.

[fluxtorrent]

You're sale isn't important enough for them to deal with a vendor like that

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seems kinda suspect, the simple fact the company doesn't want to sell its product to the main stream. plus and this is the weirdest part, if the company profited billions why would it worry about nickles and dimes on a few 100 units of the steam deck.

something is off, im 100% sure Playstation and Nintendo would of failed if it had been mail order only, In Store sales represent well over 70% of purchases due to the likely random buying that customers do when they see things in the store.

if what all you are saying is true, steam deck is already at a profit loss, they don't make any money selling a 350 dollar steam deck, and are only profiting a little from the 600 dollar model on the deal they got for the m.2 chips.

which btw the m.2 chips are price dropping rapidly as well.

In my opinion the competive edge that steam had in the past is all but gone, this is now both hardware and software related as competive companies have released products and given games away to combat steams hold on the pc market gaming sales.

i think the fact that not many people are even showing up interested in this topic tells us that steam and steam decks are the last thing on there mind. that there just isn't really a huge population of people interested any more.

look with your own eye's, i don't see any random chat , just the same old steam forum users chiming in to say its a bad idea, so weird i just don't know about steam any more.

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seems kinda suspect, the simple fact the company doesn't want to sell its product to the main stream.

Who do you think is buying it? The illuminati?

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if the company profited billions why would it worry about nickles and dimes on a few 100 units of the steam deck.

Why voluntarily lower profits for literally no benefit?

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In Store sales represent well over 70% of purchases due to the likely random buying that customers do when they see things in the store.

Dude. They're already selling ALL their Decks. How are you missing this?

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In my opinion the competive edge that steam had in the past is all but gone

They're selling more games than ever, they can't produce Decks fast enough to keep them in stock, but somehow they've lost their competitive edge?

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competive companies have released products and given games away to combat steams hold on the pc market gaming sales.

And they're failing! So obviously Steam's not in the precarious position you seem to think they're in.

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that there just isn't really a huge population of people interested any more.

During the sale, Steam decks sold out in a matter of hours. That counts for a lot more than user participation in a silly thread.

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so weird i just don't know about steam any more.

Well, that's certainly clear.