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Valve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steam (frvr.com)
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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it’s the right call. If they locked it down so it would only run Steam, it would be no different from every other console.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Jailbreakable?

Yeah they could lock it down behind some obscure jailbreak. The ones that really want to use it as a PC could but most would just use it as a game console.

That's just not Valves style.