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 and so were the best value for getting lots of compute? 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.
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.
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 and so were the best value for getting lots of compute? That’s what you get, except with the Steam Machine using it for something else is just straight up a supported use case.
I guess this explains it better than I could: https://lemmy.world/post/48534116
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.
I’m not sure you do see my point.
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.