SanAndreasX said:
Gabe Newell is not the Santa Claus figure he is made out to be by Reddit users. Setting that aside, Valve is a small company compared to Microsoft, ASUS, Sony, or even Nintendo, and cannot eat the costs of hardware as they do (or did). They also don't have the resources or the interest to negotiate prices like the big three. And even Microsoft, which is over a thousand times the size of Valve, isn't eating the costs anymore. |
Not sure who think he's Santa Claus figure.
This move seems kinda bizarre - I get that component prices went up, but if you look at something like AYN Thor Max, with 16gb RAM and 1TB SSD, it went from $449 to $549 (in two steps), and AYN is certainly not subsidizing their hardware. What Valve announced is just beyond silly.
