Steam Machine starts at $1049

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Zippy6 said:

Valves decision to not subsidise the price at all is bizarre. Their profit margins are insane, with a low number of employees running a platform that prints money.

If valve aren't willing to take steps like subsidising to get a foothold in the hardware market, why even make hardware?

This thing isn't going to notably benefit their business in anyway, whereas creating a product that could entice console gamers absolutely could have.

They wanna avoid people buying them at a loss but end up just using them as a work PC and never even touching Steam on it. Being able to use it as a normal PC is a huge benefit but that's the downside of that.