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Valve is about to win the console generation
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A lot of people are talking about loss-leading, but I think what the Steam Machine needs is a dual purpose.
The best the article seems to mention is using it as a desktop. I don't think that's quite on par with the PS3's blu-ray player and use in scientific workloads.
I don't think it could be a loss-leader for Valve. If the price/performance is good enough, what's stopping companies from buying a lot to use as work stations? No company is going to buy Steam Decks for office software, but they might buy a Steam Machine.
If that happens and every Steam Machine is actually sold at a loss then it'd be a big problem for Valve
If it runs SteamOS by default, I don't think it would be used as an office device unless there's a distro designed for office use on the Steam Machine, which itself would only happen if it gets wide adoption as an office machine. In essence a catch 22.
It's a PC. You can just put any Linux distro or even Windows on it. Some people even did that with the Steam Deck when it released
It's not about what's technically feasible, it's about what the tech guys can convince the CEO of.
And it's not hard to swap OS's, so if the economics work out they could still do it. You haven't disproven my point
Valve told LTT that it's not going to be sold as a loss leader.
I got a ps5 as early as i could mainly for 4k blurays so i could watch blade runner 2049 and spiderverse with atmos