Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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Gabe could afford to eat the price spikes of the components and sell a reasonably priced machine.
But he won't.
That'd be anticompetitive and would be used against them in lawsuits. By Epic, who use anticompetitive exclusivity agreements & subsidise giveaways, but aren't in a dominant market position so it's totally not hypocritical.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (Poe's Law, and all) so just to be safe I'll remark that releasing a product at an affordable cost is the opposite of anti competitive.
Usually when you think of something being anti-competitive, it's because it's bad for consumers. But you can also be anti-competitive by doing things that are appealing to consumers in the short term (like selling a product at a loss) but help ensure market domination for the longer term.
Valve's position here is tricky, the steam machine would have a small marketshare compared to consoles, but as a PC it could be considered furthering Valve's PC game "monopoly".