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Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system" (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I think you said that people who do things like build a cluster of PS3s because they're a lot of compute for the money are shitty, and that they're abusing the fact that Sony priced them low in the hope that people who bought them would also buy games. I disagree with that position.

If you meant something else, perhaps we don't disagree.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    My first thought was scalpers. But other than that, I agree with you. I think it would be good to limit sales to 1 or 2 units to prevent that and to give people that want to pay games a chance to buy one, then the people that want to cluster them or whatever can get their fix later. If someone wants to buy just one and modify it to do damn near anything, more power to them.

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