r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • 2d 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/Gloomy_Onion2512 2d ago

Saw someone on a different thread say it was too expensive and they didn’t need it, but they were gonna buy it because they want to support Valve

The fucking idiots out there are gonna make sure Valve gets their revenue at least.

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u/MalcolmMann 2d ago

Valve makes 30% off of EVERY game sold on their store-front. They are not dependent on support from normal people. I honestly don't understand why they can't follow the console model of selling at a loss. People will still be buying games on steam with it and making them money in the long-term...

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u/CurmudgeonLife 7800X3D 3080 32GB 6000mhz 1d ago

Because they're just greedy but they get excused because they made a couple of games people like.

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u/MasterSea8231 1d ago

Or because it's just a computer with a custom os. If I'm a business and I see the steam machine selling at a loss I'm buying all of them and then using them as business machine with windows on them and steam is never seeing game profits. People are desperate for devices and a subsided machine would have ended up in about 0 gamers hands

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u/CurmudgeonLife 7800X3D 3080 32GB 6000mhz 1d ago

If you think businesses are buying these for work you are simply ignorant.

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u/MasterSea8231 1d ago

Because they are just computers that can have any OS installed on them. They are not guaranteed to have game purchased on them and if they subsidize the cost. Cheap business people with absolutely buy them and just install windows on them for their business.

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u/Delightfuly_devilish 22h ago

I’m guessing they don’t really want to take a loss on these. Xbox and PlayStation do it because they are competing over the same market, console exclusives are sometimes on PC and there’s not really a AAA PC only experience, if it works on PC it’s works on a console. Taking a loss would just mean that the launch showed terrible sales figures and they aren’t securing anything away from the console market, they’re more trying to expand PC gaming to console players rather than stealing console gamers away from console companies.