Comment on Steam Machine
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI believe that Valve can afford to sell hardware at cost or even a little in the red. Getting people in the steam store ecosystem makes it back and then some in the long term.
Comment on Steam Machine
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI believe that Valve can afford to sell hardware at cost or even a little in the red. Getting people in the steam store ecosystem makes it back and then some in the long term.
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Normally that only works if you have DRM that locks the games to your platform, so that people don’t get the hardware at a discount then use it to run someone else’s software.
But, in Valve’s case, it really has no competitors in the PC gaming space. That might not last forever, but it almost certainly will last as long as this PC / console is around.
warmaster@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well, they already did that with the Deck, they earn very little from the hardware. Chances are they’ll do the same.