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The Steam Machine will launch in the worst possible year of gaming history.
Second worst after 1983.
ET phone home ?
It's a huge gamble but Valve surely has enough liquid capital to be able to subsidise the price to get more gamers buying games on Steam instead of in the Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch stores. It could be the best possible year in gaming history if they make it the most attractive option for gamers.
The risk for Valve is that people buy the machine simply to use as a general purpose PC, but the specs are surely low enough that it's only a small segment of the PC market that would find it useful. It's not an AI accelerator or a high performance workstation.
They aren't going to do that for one very good reason: it's a PC. And unlike the Steam Deck it's actually in a PC form factor.
If they sold the Steam Machine at a loss, what's to stop companies from buying a bunch of them to use as workstations? Those units wouldn't be bringing any game sales to Valve, so they'd have no way to recoup costs.
It's like you only read the first half of my comment.
Its still a valid concern when companies are buying up 500$ Mac minis to use as AI chat bots. If the steam machine becomes the cheapest way to do a specific business thing that's common enough, then they would get purchased. I agree that they won't be able to subsidize them with an expectation of recouping from steam digital sales.
I was going to sell my two 16 GB DDR4 kits but then I thought "what if my current kit breaks". Better safe than a few bucks richer.
Oh, so my audacious pessimism was correct, buying 32gb DDR5 now despite the cost was actually easier than doing it later.
Not thrilled. Not the worst thing I've ever been right about, though.
So ... I should buy a bunch more, sell it at the end of the year, and double my money?
Congratulations, you've just unlocked scalping!
That's it, time to do some sketchy shit...
I'm gonna need some wire, a soldering kit, and all the DDR3 I can find.
Please make it fucking stop!