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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Three thoughts:

    • Valve doesn’t use physical media, so there isn’t a need to enforce DRM at the hardware level
    • the Deck itself is sold at a small profit regardless of the configuration, so there’s no benefit to pushing users to higher-price configurations
    • Valve enforces its DRM in software via the OS

    The biggest reasons to lock down hardware aren’t really there on the Deck. On top of that, it benefits Valve to have other devices running their storefront, so using off-the-shelf parts when possible makes it easier for others to use the Deck as a template.