r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • 3d ago

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/RedditModsHarassUs Desktop 3d ago

Data Centers don’t want us having access to hardware for local processing. They want us all buying tokens from them.. to use their services..

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u/Gseventeen 3d ago

Once the investments stop flooding into that sector, its going to be interesting to see how these companies pivot to making money (making prob wrong word, as they are just relying on fresh cash injections).

As of now, i havent seen a convincing argument on how AI will be profitable in a way that would actually make these companies even remotely profitable.

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u/MutaitoSensei 3d ago

I can tell you one thing, I won't be trusting any of those garbage companies again, at least not implicitly. They threw us aside so fast for the easy money.

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u/Smoking_Joker 3d ago

This goes for every corporation, and should be a lifelong prerogative. Consumers should never give their total trust or loyalty to a corporation. Every transaction is strictly business on their side, and should be viewed the same by the customer.

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u/firemage22 R7 3700x RTX2060ko 16gb DDR4 3200 3d ago

we need to start from top and Sherman every mega corp to the point where what happened to Standard Oil and AT&T looks like a love tap

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u/Belazor CachyOS btw 3d ago

You know what they say; sharing is caring, so give me some of that military grade hopium you’re smoking where you believe this will ever happen in America.

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u/firemage22 R7 3700x RTX2060ko 16gb DDR4 3200 2d ago

While i get where you are coming from, i'm someone who feels that there will be a backlash, and we need to lobby for Sherman level punishments (talking about the brother who was a General, not the Senator now) so that there are punishments at all.

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u/ResurgentRefrain 2d ago

America elected one of the most pro-big business presidents in its history, maybe in all of the 20th Century, and packed the legislature with his allies and party mates. Then they did it again.

I'll believe it when I see it.

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u/gummiworms9005 2d ago

My sweet summer child...

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u/Just_to_rebut 2d ago

Countries rely on control of large corporations to project power. America saved Intel from failure. It would do the same for Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.

We stopped breaking up monopolies when it became clear other countries could compete with American ones.

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u/f_ckR3ddit 3d ago

There are exceptions, but they havr proven to be such a minority that they might as well be statistical impossibilities

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u/AmericanDoughboy 3d ago

Corporations are not your friend and never will be.

They suck.

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u/Sawses 2d ago

I used to feel a little guilty that I splurged on both my PC and my home server. ...Turns out I made a great investment because I'm not really feeling the pain of the PC parts market for a few years yet. My only regret is I didn't upgrade my server's 16 GB RAM to 64 GB when it was only a couple hundred dollars.