During the development phase of a console, there are several stages that companies continue to go to the final product, one of them is the creation of prototypes that allows you to see how the device really works, but obviously, they should not be sold. Although there are some who arrive in the hands of people who resell them, like this of the Steam bridge which was sold in Ebay.
There are many cases in which we can see how a collection object is sold in the second hand-hand market for many money, although it often does not have such a significant value in terms of performance, which occurs with the test versions or the prototypes that the different consoles have. This is what happened with a Steam bridge model that was found on Ebay with a price of $ 3000, although in this case, it was sold for much less ($ 2000).
This steam bridge model was not created to be sold, but it did it again for 2000 dollars
All companies have a series of directives that must be followed when developing a new device, once it is taken into account on paper, it is necessary to start making unique prototypes that allow you to see how it really works. THE Steam bridge For example, he had enough changes compared to his first version to achieve what he is now, which teaches us an engineering sample that has been sold on Ebay for almost five times the price of the cheapest model that we can find today.
Obviously, it is a unique device because there is only one prototype created with these specifications, which are moreover quite worse compared to those whose Steam LCD So, part of a test that sought to create an even cheaper model. In this case, the console which was sold at auction had a “Picasso”, which offers approximately half of the energy in terms of GPU that the chip family used by the Steam bridge That there is on the market, the APU “air”.
In addition to that, the model is designed to offer a much lower general performance taking into account that this prototype had 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, so there was surely a time when the company was planning to launch a model with a lower performance and at a more affordable price. Compared to the rest of the portable consoles that are on the market Steam bridge It is always one of the cheapest if we take into account the value for money, so a cheaper additional model would certainly not have been a success, so Valve I would have ended up excluding.
What is clear is that this “engineering sample n ° 34” is one of the most expensive portable consoles that have been sold, a collection piece in which someone ended up investing a lot of money to obtain it.
