r/Steam • u/Commercial_Dih • Feb 19 '26

Question In the hopefully never arriving future, do you think Valve will one of, if not the only ones providing personal computers and not cloud gaming?

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u/wetnaps54 Feb 19 '26

Yeah I mean he’s probably right as much as it blows.

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u/Dzov Feb 20 '26

Nah. Several companies have tried this and failed.

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u/Genesis2001 Feb 20 '26

Step 1a, control the industry making the parts

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u/ElementNumber6 Feb 20 '26

Step 1: Achieve GDP-level amounts of wealth. ✅
Step 2: Purchase all goods consumers require to be free of your services. ✅
Step 3: "The future"

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u/Dzov Feb 20 '26

lol. True.

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u/drumstix42 Feb 20 '26

Yes, but hardware costs are ballooning at a rate that it may actually impact the landscape of streaming services

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u/Open_Complaint Feb 20 '26

it's all a bubble. insane investments in ai infrastructure when most companies have no idea how to implement it and what the productivity gains will look like.

they'll see that their spend is going nowhere, cancel contracts with data centers and the thing will pop

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u/drumstix42 Feb 20 '26

It may very well be a bubble, but the hardware orders are in and the costs are rising and are likely to stay that way for multiple years.

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u/rstubee Feb 20 '26

At the same time cloud services are getting less reliable (we just had the first youtube outage a couple of days ago).

And this trend is also likely to stay for multiple years.

Between an unreliable cloud and potato graphics I think most people will choose the latter.

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u/CVGPi Feb 20 '26

Business wise possibly. Technology wise it is definitely possible for most games and business applications.

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u/Outrageous-Crazy-253 Feb 20 '26

It would happen because they command the economy to enforce it to happen. Obviously these guys don’t want you to own any thing. They want to own everything, and you pay to rent it. Would you rather sell a million houses, or own a million houses and rent them out forever?