▲ 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
[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago (2 children) What's the profit margin on that do you think? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I have no idea, but Valve does because they have the analytics for it. They can see what games are bought, played and ran on Proton. And it seems profitable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago It could be a loss leader or just a hedge at the moment 🤷 They could have been loosing money on it until they started selling hardware. Though they could still be losing money on hardware even. No idea rbh permalink fedilink source parent
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I have no idea, but Valve does because they have the analytics for it. They can see what games are bought, played and ran on Proton. And it seems profitable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago It could be a loss leader or just a hedge at the moment 🤷 They could have been loosing money on it until they started selling hardware. Though they could still be losing money on hardware even. No idea rbh permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago It could be a loss leader or just a hedge at the moment 🤷 They could have been loosing money on it until they started selling hardware. Though they could still be losing money on hardware even. No idea rbh permalink fedilink source parent