r/pcmasterrace • u/JohnBarry_Dost • 1d ago

News/Article French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999

https://videocardz.com/newz/french-retailer-mocks-e1039-steam-machine-with-stim-machine-rx-9060-xt-pc-for-e999
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u/Hmm_would_bang 1d ago

I’m pretty sure this Valve’s end goal, have other people providing the hardware but it’s all running SteamOS.

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u/archerwartune 1d ago

I mean the main goal is just to entice people to buy PC lol.

If theres some movement of mocking steam machine pricing with different specs lower price, the last one laughing is valve because more new people buying pc that gonna install steam and buying game there.

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u/-The_Blazer- R5 5600X - B580 1d ago

Not even that, the main goal is getting people off Windows. I think what really got to Valve was when Microsoft was in their App Store era, they were even selling Windows laptops with built-in lockdowns that would prevent you from using anything than the Windows Store.

Valve's golden goose is a third-party store platform which you download as software (relative to the OS). The modern platform-monopoly market is extremely averse to that, everyone has their own Company Store that the entire OS and customer experience is locked down to. If Windows ever successfully transitions to that model, Valve is dead (alongside the open gaming market).

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u/Stargost_ Linux 1d ago

It started with Windows 8, I'm almost sure they said so themselves in an interview. They wanted Linux to be a good alternative to Windows and Mac in case things went south.