etchinghillside comments on Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Consoles make an attempt to be a locked ecosystem - which is why they can subsidize it - because they know if you buy it your buying their games for it.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes, that's what I'm saying

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

not much to abuse

Then I’m misunderstanding this part. The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

But in the current climate I image that if the Steam machine was heavily subsidized that there would be a subset of people abusing that by doing something like purchasing, harvesting, and immediately reselling its parts.

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