Comment on ETA Prime : Steam Machine Hands-On First Look!
Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoI would love to see Valve reach 10b annually with their hardware expansion.
Comment on ETA Prime : Steam Machine Hands-On First Look!
Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoI would love to see Valve reach 10b annually with their hardware expansion.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Can you clarify what you mean by this?
Are you saying… $10b annually in harware sales?
Using the $1128 price for the 512GB SM + Controller, that’d be uh… ~8.8m units sold annually.
That’s totally absurd, imo.
That’s roughly a quarter of 2025’s PS5 (any variant) console sales numbers.
Valve would have to pivot into basically only/primarily being a hw manufacturer, they’d have to … somewhere between 10x and 100x the amount of money/capital they’re currently using to source components, do assembly and then ship things physically.
They do not have that much money.
Valve has like a total of less than 500 employees, their entire business culture is built around having a very small number of incredibly competent and often multi-domain skilled employees.
They’d have to radically shift the entire fundamental structure of what the company is, to do something like that.
… but perhaps I misunderstand what you mean?
Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
No, I mean they could after expanding their hardware offerings.