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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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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 13 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 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 12 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 11 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 9 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. 😆