i agree about steam deck and i think a couple solid hardware players need to take a risk, like xbox did with series S. try to draw a line and encourage game studios to join in

that's what I'm working to figure out. The business model worked until around 2018 . Software could target gen + 1 , and things would balance out as hardware got cheaper. Now we have the inverse, where hardware is only going up, so why are software developers still pushing hardware into unattainable territory?

The capitalism part actually made sense until it didn't