Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 15 hours agoA product sold at a loss/very attractive price to attract customers. The idea is that they customers will come due to the cheap price of a desirable product and buy additional other stuff at the store, which should hopefully make up for the loss.
E.g. a restaurant advertise cheap burgers to attract customers, and then make the profit on alcoholic beverages that customers buy alongside the cheap burger.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
So the Razor and blades model (printers) in games?
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 14 hours ago
From the second sentence on the page:
So the Razor and blades model would probably be the more accurate term for what people thought the new steam hardwate would be, yeah.
Though steam won’t lock you to their services.