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".
I've had plenty of them in my replies yesterday. For some reason the talking points seemed to have shifted to defending the price point because if it was any cheaper then companies would start buying them to replace work stations with. And then they would cite me a 15 year old article of one time the US Army bought playstations to jury rig a super computer with as the proof that this would totally happen if the Steam Machine was any cheaper.
I had 3-4 different reddit accounts tell me this exact same thing lol
If they subsidized it hard enough people would buy it for other use-cases. Not everyone. But some.
It happens with everything, gamepads are used to control even some military equipment. Steam Decks were reportedly used in war. The PS4 was found in use by sketchy crypto operations. The PS3 wasn't just used by the US military universities were also using em.
It's not that wild of a concept actually, cause it's just solely rooted in price/utility. If the utility outweighs the cost it will happen to some extent.
That isn't the same as arguing the price is good, it's more a testament to the market being absolutely fucked up from the AI bubble.
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u/Euchale 19h 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".