When Valve introduced its Steam Machine cube gaming console/PC, the gaming community began questioning the hardware choices and Valve's performance claims. However, a Valve engineer stated that the Steam Machine is more powerful than 70% of gaming PCs on the market, based on Steam Survey data. It fe...
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They should just sell at a loss the steam games bought will make up for it. Every consol does that, why not this mini pc.

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Every console does that and it’s kinda anti-competitive behavior isn’t it?

Definitely makes it harder for new companies to release enticing hardware, so i’d say so…

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That’s just waiting corporate and other entity buying powerful PC for cheap. And Valve won’t get any game sales from it.

Just like PS3 being used as supercomputer.

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Because since it’s unlocked hardware, corporations would buy them all as workstations, and they’d never buy any games. At the end of the day, corporations ruin everything.

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