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>Valve is in secrecy so they don't eat into their own sales of Index units
I doubt it. They ran into parts sourcing troubles during 2020/2021 and they went out of stock for long periods. The index has had the reputation for a while now of being an overpriced, outdated headset with high RMA issues. Not that it matters to Valve financially, but I doubt the sales are stellar past the launch and 2020. We know that they constantly work with prototypes and file patents, but nobody trusts Valvetime. They could be doing more to fund developers, funding VR projects and telling nvidia to get their shit together for linux drivers on X and Wayland. That's the future of their platform and the Deckard. We know this.

But at the moment it looks like they dropped an expensive high RMA headset and then immediately dipped to go chase switch money.