Steam Machine sales numbers project an estimated 760,000 annual units. Valve faces ongoing production bottlenecks driven by a global RAM shortage into 2027.
  • RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    It sounds like they multiplied weekly sales by 52. I don’t think that is a valid approach here.

    Though it does sound like current sales are at least good, despite the RAM crunch.

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      At the rate of ram prices the steam machine might come without ram later or the sale price would be mich higher.

    • Matty_r@programming.devEnglish
      1 day

      This is how shit like this is always reported - its infuriating. Much like annualised revenue where they tell the stock market “we made 1 Billion last month, which means we’ll definitely make 12 Billion in a year”.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1 day

        And this “flat” estimation without any nuance taken into account is based on a roughly estimate of current sales, with an guess of split between high (35%) end and low end (65%) model of sales. Also early adopters will buy it for any prices and then we need to see how many are still interested and how many VALVE can produce. There are so many factors that its impossible to project a yearly sale number…

        And the title says “Hits”… as you say, this is just infuriating.

        • RQG@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15 hours

          This is how project managers think isn’t it?

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
            14 hours

            Maybe, but we are dealing here with “ai journalists”. Edit: Never mind, I just understood what you meant. Project Managers think of the numbers they will get in the future. And if they don’t get it, then someone stole it from them.

  • steelplatedmech@piefed.caEnglish
    23 hours

    Now they are extrapolating estimated figures as annual when it hasn’t even been out a full month? What a terrible article. And jumping the gun when price of the Steam Machines could go up even more with component costs not locked in for years for Valve, but closer to months so more affected by changing part costs.