I don't think they'll be able to sell at a loss, because they are effectively selling desktop computers, not dedicated game consoles. It would be easy for a company to flash Windows onto them and deploy them in an office space, for example.
They've already ended production for their basic 256GB LCD model; the 512GB OLED is now their new baseline.
That's the steam deck, the handheld, not the minipc like cube they announced
This discussion is about the Steam Deck.
Top level comment was about both ('also affect their unreleased devices'), this sub-thread about the latter ('going to').