You seem to think the Steam Machine will be much faster that the specs imply.
If it’s sold at a loss like a console it would beat the price/performance of any other x86 chip on the market, which is why they can’t sell it at a loss, ergo my point.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they’re sold at a loss, by definition they have to be cheaper than anything sold at a gain with the same performance.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And then we could make money having people riding her. If you’re going to start a hypothetical scenario of Valve still being able to make money selling at a loss you can’t be angry that people are replying on the basis your premise is true.
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thry could absolutely do that. Valve makes a cut off every Steam game sold. If anything, it’d be MORE viable for them than any other console maker given the wider library
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re completely missing the point. People can buy steam machines and use them as a PC without ever opening steam, or worse, use them as servers or parts of a cluster. If Steam Machines were sold at a loss they would , by definition, be cheaper than equivalent hardware, so companies would buy 10k of them to put into a warehouse to run stuff because it would be cheaper than buying the same thing from other places. This is what happened to the PS3, non-blocked systems can’t be sold at a loss because you can’t guarantee that whoever is buying it will use them for your intended purpose.
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you’re playing video games on PC, you fucking have steam.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So? PCs have other uses outside gaming, you know?
glog78@digitalcourage.social 2 weeks ago
@IzzyJ @Nibodhika
I personally think, that if your are gaming on linux you should value valve alot for how much money they have put into the linux ecosystem and it's not bad to buy at their store. But for real there is alot of gaming happing outside of steam (including things which won't make it to steam).