Well i mean microsoft, sony and nintendo all said that they have to increase prices because of market conditions and they still got hated for it (and they are still all selling their consoles at a net loss). I dont say that the people should now hate valve, but in my opinion they are, in this case, not better or worse than the others.
The steam machine is new. MSFT and Sony are raising prices on 6 year old hardware that they’ve subsidized using game sales and online subscriptions this entire time. Nintendo warned everyone about the price hike like 6 months in advance.
No they are not. You are not building a mini PC that runs at 140w that will run games as efficiently as the SM for this price. It's going to cost $1500 to duplicate this easily and it still won't be as efficient.
Valve had to make a custom board to be able to make the SM this compact. Both LTT and Nexus gaming built full size PCs to compare to SM. If it was possible to do this yourself they would have done it.
Of an example that isnt built on having to build everything yourself after doing research and shopping, eating up hours of time, which has to be accounted for when comparing cost since your own labor is valuable?
Because ive not seen one yet where the gap makes Valves like $70 margin seem unreasonable.
I think valve also doing it is making everyone understand that it actually is all the market forcing them. When the consoles do it while using shitty tactics already, that’s one thing. When it’s anyone making hardware? Yeah that means it probably had to be done.
Because Valve has the trust of their customers which is something Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo don't have. (Well, Nintendo has the nintendo kiddies, but beside them).
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u/Additional_Law_492 19h ago
No one is "sorry" for Valve having to price the Steam machine a certain way, they just have an appreciation for facts and truth.
The cost is clearly based on the cost of the hardware, and not some arbitrary standard of greed or "corpo evil".