Tim Sweeney Mocks Valve's Steam Deck Price Hikes as Gabe Newell Flaunts $500 Million Yacht
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Updated · Kotaku · May 29
Tim Sweeney Mocks Valve's Steam Deck Price Hikes as Gabe Newell Flaunts $500 Million Yacht
11 articles · Updated · Kotaku · May 29
Tim Sweeney publicly mocked Valve after it raised Steam Deck prices by hundreds of dollars, tying the move to Gabe Newell’s lavish yacht spending in a sarcastic post on X.
Valve’s increase comes amid an AI-driven RAM shortage and weaker supply-chain leverage in gaming hardware, but the optics were sharpened by renewed attention on Newell’s $500 million yacht Leviathan.
The jab quickly drew backlash toward Sweeney, with users pointing to Epic’s layoffs of 1,000 employees just months ago and contrasting them with Valve’s record on job cuts.
Epic has not fully detailed the financial pressures behind those layoffs, saying they extended beyond softer Fortnite engagement to include costly legal fights with Apple and Google.
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