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Valve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steam (frvr.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 4 months ago (7 children)

A higher upfront cost has always been the price you pay for an open system and paying less for games and online play. But just knowing how the cost has been artificially inflated makes it a no-go for me. Not Valve's fault, just the shitty reality of the world we live in.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago*

    It would be more correct to claim the demand is artificial, in that the hardware is probably going to sit in a warehouse, depreciating for years before the data centers and power infrastructure are brought on line to use it.

    But, I get where you're going with it.

    Speculative bubbles are gonna speculate.

    Some may even suspect a deliberate motive to kill personal computing to force cloud adoption, but hey... What would they know.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I guess uh.. how so is it artificial? Like, the inflation of the price is real. You do have to pay more now than a year or two ago.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    It's artificial because the components have been made scarce due to manufacturers choosing not to sell to consumers (or consumer products) any more, not because the components cost more to make or anything like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    The cost of the component to be manufactured has almost never represented the price you pay for a good. A bag of peanuts costs fuck all to manufacture. It's price is based mostly on what companies think you are willing to pay.

    The point is that the inflation isn't artificial:that parts real It's the demand that's artificial, at least allegedly.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Semantics. There is an artificial element in the process that results in them costing more than they did previously.

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