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thismeintiel on 27 November 2013
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mutantsushi said:
thismeintiel said:

My guess is the rest of the system won't be quite up to par with the PS4/One, especially since the manufacturer, the retailer, AND Valve will be getting a cut of the sales.  As far as retailers go, don't expect them to take the miniscule profit they do on console HW, since they won't be seeing any sales/profit after the initial purchase.


Your point re: retailer interest is pretty spot on, as far as Valve's cut it probably will be zero: they are getting every Steam Machine owner to buy all their games thru Steam after all, with zero used game market.  They aren't making the units other than the controllers for which a reasonable margin is fine as that is supporting the entire platform.  Valve is also happy if people dual-boot regular PCs with Linux to play these games, no real difference to them, only the Steam Machine OEM partners.

You're probably right that Valve will be taking a small cut, since they make money on the games.  But, we're going to have to wait and see how much retailers are going to want upfront from sales before any company can say how much these machines will cost.