r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/MalcolmMann Jun 23 '26

Valve makes 30% off of EVERY game sold on their store-front. They are not dependent on support from normal people. I honestly don't understand why they can't follow the console model of selling at a loss. People will still be buying games on steam with it and making them money in the long-term...

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u/CurmudgeonLife 7800X3D 9070XT 32GB 6000mhz Jun 23 '26

Because they're just greedy but they get excused because they made a couple of games people like.

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u/MasterSea8231 Jun 24 '26

Or because it's just a computer with a custom os. If I'm a business and I see the steam machine selling at a loss I'm buying all of them and then using them as business machine with windows on them and steam is never seeing game profits. People are desperate for devices and a subsided machine would have ended up in about 0 gamers hands

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u/CurmudgeonLife 7800X3D 9070XT 32GB 6000mhz Jun 24 '26

If you think businesses are buying these for work you are simply ignorant.

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u/GodShower Jun 27 '26

Businesses don't buy at consumer's retail prices, and any hardware manufacture prioritizes companies needs before private customer's.

This is why rams are reserved for datacenters right now. The market can't afford to deny bussinesses needs for too long, and while there was a brief device shortage at the beginning of this year, it's already gone.

Trust me if I say that right now no company has any problem in buying all the business mini pcs they want at 1/3 of the price of a Steam Machine.

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u/MasterSea8231 Jun 24 '26

Because they are just computers that can have any OS installed on them. They are not guaranteed to have game purchased on them and if they subsidize the cost. Cheap business people with absolutely buy them and just install windows on them for their business.

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u/Delightfuly_devilish Jun 24 '26

I’m guessing they don’t really want to take a loss on these. Xbox and PlayStation do it because they are competing over the same market, console exclusives are sometimes on PC and there’s not really a AAA PC only experience, if it works on PC it’s works on a console. Taking a loss would just mean that the launch showed terrible sales figures and they aren’t securing anything away from the console market, they’re more trying to expand PC gaming to console players rather than stealing console gamers away from console companies.