If it’s sold at a loss, then you would get companies buying them in the thousands and installing Windows for office use.
Remember the old story with the US military using PS3s as a supercomputer because they were sold at a loss? That’s what you get, except with the Steam Machine using it for something else is just straight up a supported use case.
Yeah, I see your point. To paraphrase, it says that they have to make a profit and can’t guarantee game sales from their own store to offset any potential subsidisation.
My point is that Gaben/Valve have billions and don’t need the profit from it. So what if some people use it to play games from other stores? They’ll be in the minority for sure.
I guess everyone is too capitalism-brained to see past the profit motive.
To be clear, nowhere in that article suggests that valve would be making a profit on the current price, or that they “have to make a profit” - just that they would not sell it under cost.
I’m genuinely confused how that becomes “profit motive”, or shows greed.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The game store that has so much of the PC market that people call it a monopoly can’t?
That doesn’t make any sense.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
If it’s sold at a loss, then you would get companies buying them in the thousands and installing Windows for office use.
Remember the old story with the US military using PS3s as a supercomputer because they were sold at a loss? That’s what you get, except with the Steam Machine using it for something else is just straight up a supported use case.
jeeva@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I guess this explains it better than I could: lemmy.world/post/48534116
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Yeah, I see your point. To paraphrase, it says that they have to make a profit and can’t guarantee game sales from their own store to offset any potential subsidisation.
My point is that Gaben/Valve have billions and don’t need the profit from it. So what if some people use it to play games from other stores? They’ll be in the minority for sure.
I guess everyone is too capitalism-brained to see past the profit motive.
jeeva@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To be clear, nowhere in that article suggests that valve would be making a profit on the current price, or that they “have to make a profit” - just that they would not sell it under cost.
I’m genuinely confused how that becomes “profit motive”, or shows greed.