Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 week agoExactly, but I don’t see anything keeping them from selling the Frame at a loss or tight margin. What else are you going to use that with but Steam games?
Even the Steam Controller is useless without Steam Input, but I’d argue it won’t necessarily sell more games. Maybe they could include it with the Steam Machine for “free” to bump the price of the machine up enough to not make sense for a company, but still sell it at a tight margin to sell more games.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 1 week ago
Why would they sell any hardware at a loss at all? Console manufacturers do it to lock people into their ecosystem and sell them games at a premium, Valve doesn’t need that, people are already overwhelmingly favoring their store.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The same reason people go into debt for a burrito. It’s easier for people to justify a smaller cost now, and valve will make than money back later with extra games sold, especially in the case of the Frame.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 1 week ago
As someone who loves VR gaming, isn’t that a lot of faith for the unpredictable at best market that is VR games?