Comment on "It's too dangerous for us to speculate": Valve don't know if Steam Machine prices will drop in the future, after admitting that "some people are going to priced out"

• 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.

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• jeeva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I guess this explains it better than I could: lemmy.world/post/48534116

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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