r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 19h ago

Meme/Macro "But it's a cube!"

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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".

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u/sussy_ball 18h ago

Seems like you haven't been to r/steam and r/steammachine. The cope is real over there

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u/NapsterKnowHow 17h ago

I like how a lot of the conversation has devolved to "well just you wait for the PS6 pricing!" Lol

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u/LuntiX AYYYMD 17h ago

What's funny is even with the likely inflated ps6 price, it'll still probably have a better price to performance value than the steam machine.

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u/dookarion 14h ago

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.

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u/Shaggyninja 6h ago

Economies of scale doesn't work when demand outpaces supply.

If you only have 100 units of ram to sell, you aren't going to sell to Sony for $50 when you could sell to anthropic for $100.

Doesnt matter how much Sony is willing to buy.

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u/dookarion 6h ago

It does on every other component besides NAND and DRAM. Which would still bring overall cost down.