What makes you say that?
Valve scale is negligable at least for now. They are very far from being a real competitor.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Valve’s Steam Deck is produced on a small scale and is only sold directly by Valve and their global sales numbers are lower compared to even even this years sales numbers of other consoles, which is considered to be the worst year for XBOX ever.
On top of that, new Steam Machine “console” will be sold as a PC and at PC pricing without them subsidizing raw hardware cost. It’s simply unsustainable.
AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Sure. But I don’t see any other company that could even have an interest in the console market.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It’s a market with a well defined celling. It always competes against raw hardware cost and you can only subsidize it for so long before you run out money or shareholder confidence.
I don’t think the new high console prices will be sustainable business model going forward.