What’s stopping someone from not playing ball and just cleaning house? Hell, I’d even be okay with 80s-era hardware as long as it’s mine.
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Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI’m worried that they’re trying to price us into not owning our machines anymore. You will own nothing and rent from us strategy.
msage@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Well, good news!
Valve will bring GameBox upon us.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The big unknown that’s been a popular topic of discussion is whether Valve locked in a long-running contract for the hardware before the RAM price increases happened. If they did, then they can probably offer favorable prices, and they’re probably sitting pretty. If not, then they won’t.
My guess is that they didn’t, since:
They announced that they would hold off on announcing pricing due to still working on figuring out the hardware cost (which I suspect very likely refers to the RAM situation).
I’d bet that they have a high degree of risk in the number of units that the Steam Machine 2.0 will sell. The Steam Deck was an unexpectedly large success. Steam Machine 1.0 kinda flopped. Steam Machine 2.0 could go down either route. They probably don’t want to contract to have a ton of units built and then have huge oversupply. Even major PC vendors like Dell and Lenovo got blindsided and were unprepared, and I suspect that they’re in a much less-risky position to commit to a given level of sales and doing long-running purchases.