When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages you’ve likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).
Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change. We will keep you updated as much as we can as we finalize those plans as soon as possible.
They’ve already stated that they aren’t going to sell the hardware at a loss. This is because they want the hardware business to be sustainable.
Meanwhile Meta is selling their headsets at a steep loss because they’re making it back by selling all of your data that they collect with it.
And it sounds as if they’re giving up that Goat soon enough.
They just laid off all of their staff devoted to VR.