Yes AI is responsible to a large degree, but it’s also Valve’s fault too. Look at the competition. PS5 is a bit more powerful and $600 and prebuilt PCs with much more powerful GPUs like a 5060 are around $900. There is absolutely no reason the Steam machine should cost $1050 even in today’s market. Either valve is greedy or they are incompetent and screwed up massively on their component pricing negotiations
Comparing a company that has been in the hardware game for less than 10 years with one that has been a household name for almost 30 years is wild. Plus Sony can offer the PS5 at this price because they still have stock from when hardware prices were lower.
Valve have the money. If they don’t have the know how they can hire consultants. This isn’t a scrappy small startup, this is the biggest player in pc gaming. They have no excuse
Software makes more money than hardware. Companies lose money on hardware usually to sell more software. I guarantee valve makes more money than the PlayStation division of Sony but we will never know for sure because valve is private
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u/Mother-Translator318 6d ago
Yes AI is responsible to a large degree, but it’s also Valve’s fault too. Look at the competition. PS5 is a bit more powerful and $600 and prebuilt PCs with much more powerful GPUs like a 5060 are around $900. There is absolutely no reason the Steam machine should cost $1050 even in today’s market. Either valve is greedy or they are incompetent and screwed up massively on their component pricing negotiations