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Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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“I can’t tell you what the price will be, because I literally don’t know,” he said on the November 15 episode of the WAN show.

“When I said I’m disappointed it isn’t going to follow a console pricing model, where its subsided by the fact that manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel that would be a more meaningful product, they asked what I meant by console price and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great.”

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)

If you ever worked at a company before, you’d know that’s an insane belief

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

After cutting the price to reach greater audience (originally too expensive) Sony had to remove Linux support from Playstation 3 because companies where amassing lot of those things to set up some sort of DIY supercomputers.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe a startup would do it. If they did development of smaller shit like apps or simple web dev. But yeah no, no business would do this because businesses need support deals.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You'd think so.
Try again with healthcare or some other place.
Stingy af.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You think healthcare businesses (I forget healthcare is a business in America, sorry) would be caught using Steam Machines as work stations? They would risk ridicule. Wouldn't be taken seriously.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Stop assuming everyone is US please.

Healthcare around the world is stingy.
They try to get around buying high capacity backup drives because they paid 200€ for 5 1TB HDDs 6 years ago.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Stop assuming everyone is US please.

I didn't, and usually don't, so that's all good and fine. 👍

Healthcare around the world is stingy.

I will highly doubt any place would do this. Nobody making these decisions knows enough about computer performance, I bet you. Government decision makers don't, for sure. 😆

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I've worked at a dozen companies before and don't find it insane at all. Would you care to elaborate?

Are you aware of the time the Air Force built a supercomputer out of PS3s?

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercomputer.html

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

No it aint.
Not every company is a multi-bilion corporation distributed across 20 countries.