eXtas1s: Valve is working on a new Steam console to compete with Playstation and Xbox in the future

HogIsland said:
What lesson? History is happening. Everything we're seeing is unprecedented
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People keep rooting for the competition to fail, like this is sports. It's stupid.

Just look at AMD, Nvidia and the current GPU market. People want more of this??

I want as many viable players in the market as possible.
 
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BennyBlanco said:
It would be cool to get a SteamOs box to park under my TV in the living room and access all my Steam games. I would likely buy one.

But let's not kid ourselves. It wouldn't be a mass market device. They're not gonna spend anything advertising it. It won't be available at retail.

Unless they take on some other investors to partner with, which would fuck it all up anyway.
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That already exists Bro!

It's called Bazzite. It's basically the SteamOS ported to any AMD CPU. I have such a setup in my living room. It has a 7800X3D and a 7800XT GPU and it's legit amazing. Games run as good and often better than Windows. Some exceptions for sure, but it's an incredible experience overall.

Nvidia support is shaky but getting better.
 
PixelatedBeast said:
..., they can still maket the PS6 as a high end gaming device atlernative to people who cant afford high end gaming PCs...... like the 70-80% of gamers who play on low to mid range PCs through Steam now.
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I don't think many of the low to mid range PC gamers are interested in console gaming.
 
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TheThreadsThatBindUs said:
Valve will NEVER loss lead on hardware. So, there is no chance the price : performance ratio will be comparable to a PS/Xbox.
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Wrong, if they release weaker hardware than PS5 (like ~Deck hardware on a cheap stationary console) it's probably going to have better price: performance. And there is a plethora of Steam games that would run excellent on it.
 
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bad guy said:
Wrong, if they release weaker hardware than PS5 (like ~Deck hardware on a cheap stationary console) it's probably going to have better price: performance. And there is a plethora of Steam games that would run excellent on it.
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You're not even making an argument. You're responding with something that's entirely tangential to my claim.

My claim was that Valve will never loss-lead on hardware, meaning they will never take a $200 per unit loss on a product they sell in order to make the money back through software. They're not a hardware platform company. They're a software platform company. There is no fiscal justification for them loss-leading on hardware because hardware isn't the core of their business.... Steam is, and Steam is not locked down to one specific hardware config like console software eco-systems are.

For MS and Sony, they have no choice to loss-lead on hardware because the hardware is the core of their business. As is currently self-evident from MS's current poor hardware performance, if Sony and MS fail to sell boxes, it massively limits their ability to generate revenue.

All you've said is, "weaker hardware will be cheaper"... Like duh! How does that have anything to do with my original point about loss-leading?
 
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