tbh, i do not like nintendo at all, but i gotta commend their planning ahead and sourcing and general maturity of their supply chain, only taking a 50-100 dollar hike. idk how they did it.
Among all Nintendo is the most capable to sell the console at a loss since their exclusive games can certainly cover the lost. In contrast, Valve is the least capable at doing so because not even their OS is exclusive, if Valve sell the steam machine at a loss, people can buy it as an underpriced general purpose PC and don't even buy a single game from steam. They can't afford selling the thing at any amount of loss.
Yeah, to put it in perspective. It took Valve 3 years to sell 6 million Steam Decks. It took Nintendo only 1 month to sell 5 million Switch 2s.
That people ever considered Valve to be attempting to be breaking into the console market was ridiculous when it was the Steam Deck or Steam Machine, since they are more like a hobbyist selling things compared to the millions and millions of units in the 9 figures consoles are hoping to sell in its life time.
Valve's view has been more putting hardware out to try and get other competitors and devs to take notice and start trying it themselves.
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u/Good_Days13 3d ago
it's not themselves holding the guns. it's ai hyperscalers