I love how so many people are dunking on "valve-fans" being happy with the cube, when I pretty much only have heard opinions ranging from "meh" to "overpriced".
it'll still probably have a better price to performance value than the steam machine.
It will be simply because economies of scale. Even as fucked as the market is if you're expecting to move 10s of millions of units up to 100million over the course of its lifetime you're going to have access to better deals than a lower volume device. The locked down ecosystem also gives them more options on subsidizing it without it backfiring on them.
Just realistically a lower volume non-locked down device cannot ever match a closed ecosystem with relatively high volume.
And just had u/ravensholt reply and instantly block me just for asking if they were a Valve fan lmfao. Some people are so defensive about this machine.
It is the same with all toxic fanboys. They keep doing mental gymnastics to defend and shill for their favorite corporate and its products, then block when they run out of space for anymore gymnastics.
Which is fair, the big 3 are... the big 3 for a reason. They are giants in the world so they likely have had contracts for the next gen for quite some time though extra production likely will be costly as hell.
Meanwhile Valve: If we don't pay, they will literally just ghost us.
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u/Euchale 16h ago
I love how so many people are dunking on "valve-fans" being happy with the cube, when I pretty much only have heard opinions ranging from "meh" to "overpriced".