▲ 445 ▼ 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 sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 100 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 0 points 4 months ago (5 children) Surely you can't be serious. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago* (4 children) I am, because I think every body have to get paid. And if you are considering corpo should give us money you don't understand corpo well enough, even the nicest corpo is still a corpo. Can't trust any company which isn't a cooperative, I seen corpo change leader and destroy their strong points often enough . And another guy made a good argument that it would be considering building a monopoly. Game seller which build a machine cheaper than any conccurence which can easily run it's store. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) "Sell it without profit" does not imply a loss, selling the product at the same cost of production does not provide any return of investment nor any losses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 0 points 4 months ago "Does not provide a return of investment" for capitalism corpo that a loss. permalink fedilink source parent [–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) Well Sony sold the PS5 at a loss, so maybe we should stop their bullshit first. I just think Steam should play the game but draw the line at the cost instead of a loss. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago https://cyberpost.co/which-consoles-were-loss-leaders/ Not only Sony that a common occurrence in the console world. I am not aware of it happening before on PC Without monopoly lawsuits. (To be precise I mean that a game/software front selling hardware at loss to trap users) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago* (4 children) I am, because I think every body have to get paid. And if you are considering corpo should give us money you don't understand corpo well enough, even the nicest corpo is still a corpo. Can't trust any company which isn't a cooperative, I seen corpo change leader and destroy their strong points often enough . And another guy made a good argument that it would be considering building a monopoly. Game seller which build a machine cheaper than any conccurence which can easily run it's store. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) "Sell it without profit" does not imply a loss, selling the product at the same cost of production does not provide any return of investment nor any losses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 0 points 4 months ago "Does not provide a return of investment" for capitalism corpo that a loss. permalink fedilink source parent [–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) Well Sony sold the PS5 at a loss, so maybe we should stop their bullshit first. I just think Steam should play the game but draw the line at the cost instead of a loss. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago https://cyberpost.co/which-consoles-were-loss-leaders/ Not only Sony that a common occurrence in the console world. I am not aware of it happening before on PC Without monopoly lawsuits. (To be precise I mean that a game/software front selling hardware at loss to trap users) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) "Sell it without profit" does not imply a loss, selling the product at the same cost of production does not provide any return of investment nor any losses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 0 points 4 months ago "Does not provide a return of investment" for capitalism corpo that a loss. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 0 points 4 months ago "Does not provide a return of investment" for capitalism corpo that a loss. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) Well Sony sold the PS5 at a loss, so maybe we should stop their bullshit first. I just think Steam should play the game but draw the line at the cost instead of a loss. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago https://cyberpost.co/which-consoles-were-loss-leaders/ Not only Sony that a common occurrence in the console world. I am not aware of it happening before on PC Without monopoly lawsuits. (To be precise I mean that a game/software front selling hardware at loss to trap users) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago https://cyberpost.co/which-consoles-were-loss-leaders/ Not only Sony that a common occurrence in the console world. I am not aware of it happening before on PC Without monopoly lawsuits. (To be precise I mean that a game/software front selling hardware at loss to trap users) permalink fedilink source parent