Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame

• potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The post (and replies) are about the VR headset (steam frame), not the gabecube.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s actually a huge thing stopping corporations from buying them in bulk as workstations:

  They’re only sold on Steam, directly by Valve, then shipped to you.

  Just like all other Valve hardware.

  You… need a Steam account.

  And they can very easily just say ‘one per person!’

  People need to stop with this ‘companies will buy them in bulk and fuck everything up!’ line of logic.

  It makes almost 0 sense.

  A company would only be able to do that by setting up a system of fraudulent accounts on Steam, which would violate the TOS individually, and potentially be quite illegal collectively.

  You won’t be able to buy a new Steam Machine, at Valve’s MSRP, at Walmart, or Best Buy, or NewEgg, or MicroCenter.

  You might be able eventually find some on Amazon, or Walmart’s online stores, something like that, but those will be from resellers of dubious sourcing methods, and they will be charging more than MSRP.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A company would only be able to do that by setting up a system of fraudulent accounts on Steam, which would violate the TOS individually, and potentially be quite illegal collectively.

    And a huge hassle just to end up with a bunch of unsupported hardware

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• cloudwolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unless the price is ridiculously low, corporations are not buying thousands of anything without a support contract. Next day repairs/exchnages and priority support are a must when dealing with hardware at scale, and Valve is not going to offer that.

  Dell/Lenovo/HP are already more expensive than consumer-grade hardware from Best Buy unless you are a very large customer. Companies pay for reliability, warranty and support.

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  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It happened to the Playstation, though not for use as workstations usually.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

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    • Grimpen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Those PlayStation supercomputers were wild. I don’t think it’s analogous to the various bits of Steam hardware coming out though, since Valve sells directly through Steam. You can’t order anything by the pallet.

      The other thing to consider is that the PS3 was used for clustered computing primarily because of the Cell processor. I have no recollection of why the cell processor performed better on certain types of problems. PS3 wasn’t being used for Excel spreadsheets, it was used for niche academic use and that one Air Force supercomputer. The Steam hardware though uses pretty standard hardware, AMD processor and Radeon graphics card.

      Considering the added friction of buying through Steam, i doubt it will have same draw.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most corporations just buy laptops and then the world’s cheapest docking stations. So would have to be cheaper than a mid-tier laptop and I can’t see that being likely.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep and once warranty is finished they sell off the hardware allowing me to pick up solid used Thinkpads to run Linux on. Warranty service is too important to corporations.

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• helimopp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  good point. could they be selling the steam frame at a loss since its more game oriented?

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• DanWolfstone@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not to point this at you but I am getting a bit tired of hearing people parrot the point that If they’re low cost then corps will buy them in droves.

  Most companies will set up a deal with other companies to buy bulk at low prices, I highly doubt valve will offer that considering the restrictions they put on buying the steam deck to avoid scalpers.

  I’d like to hope the Gabe cube be priced at a reasonable consumer viable price (+ ram tax) with the same 1 per account restriction that they had on the deck

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Blame LTT for that. They’re the ones that put out the initial idea that corporations might buy them thus valve cannot sell them at a loss.

    When I first heard them say that I initially thought “yeah that makes sense”. But after a while of thinking about it, no it doesn’t make any sense at all, I have no idea why he said that.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Linus is such a fucking idiot, around everything around linux, that he functions as an industry plant for Microsoft.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Really he’s been pretty critical of Microsoft lately. I don’t really have a problem with him personally, he definitely doesn’t live in the real world though.

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