Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Can you clarify what you mean by this?
Are you saying... $10b annually in harware sales?
Using the $1128 price for the 512GB SM + Controller, that'd be uh... ~8.8m units sold annually.
That's totally absurd, imo.
That's roughly a quarter of 2025's PS5 (any variant) console sales numbers.
Valve would have to pivot into basically only/primarily being a hw manufacturer, they'd have to ... somewhere between 10x and 100x the amount of money/capital they're currently using to source components, do assembly and then ship things physically.
They do not have that much money.
Valve has like a total of less than 500 employees, their entire business culture is built around having a very small number of incredibly competent and often multi-domain skilled employees.
They'd have to radically shift the entire fundamental structure of what the company is, to do something like that.
... but perhaps I misunderstand what you mean?
No, I mean they could after expanding their hardware offerings.