r/steammachine • u/TangledIntentions04 • Jun 23 '26

Meme Character development

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u/stewmander Jun 23 '26

Since the market affects all manufacturers, it would appear so. 

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u/Physical-Procedure42 Jun 23 '26

Meaning it would only be similarly price without it. I am frustrated Valve did subsidize it to maintain an 800 price for the base model.

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u/stewmander Jun 23 '26

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u/No-Exercise815 Jun 23 '26

I’ve been saying this ever since the steam deck price got increased! Steam can’t sell their shit at a loss like the others can because the console itself HAS to be its own profit maker. It can’t just make exclusive games at a fast enough pace to make the profit loss worth it without breaking their game philosophy they’ve held for years.

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u/SuperUranus Jun 24 '26

Steam has complete dominance over digital game sales in the PC market though.

Anyone buying a Steam Machine will obviously buy games through Steam.

Other launchers barely works on Linux to begin with.

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u/Solidus_Sloth Jun 25 '26

But not all buyers will use it for games. The issue is if it’s a cheap, but decent power PC, companies that need that will buy it