Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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i feel like steam is gonna sell them at a good price even if they are gonna make a loss on them, because gaben is tuff like that
I'm fully expecting this to be triple the price of the Quest 3S.
They are definitely not selling the Gabe cube at a loss. The steam deck could be sold at a loss, because people will buy steam games for it, but the steam machine is a PC, and there would be nothing stopping, for example, corporations buying thousands as cheap workstations that will never see a single steam purchase.
good point. could they be selling the steam frame at a loss since its more game oriented?
The post (and replies) are about the VR headset (steam frame), not the gabecube.
Most corporations just buy laptops and then the world's cheapest docking stations. So would have to be cheaper than a mid-tier laptop and I can't see that being likely.
Yep and once warranty is finished they sell off the hardware allowing me to pick up solid used Thinkpads to run Linux on. Warranty service is too important to corporations.
Unless the price is ridiculously low, corporations are not buying thousands of anything without a support contract. Next day repairs/exchanges and priority support are a must when dealing with hardware at scale, and Valve is not going to offer that.
Dell/Lenovo/HP are already more expensive than consumer-grade hardware from Best Buy unless you are a very large customer. Companies pay for reliability, warranty and support.
Not to point this at you but I am getting a bit tired of hearing people parrot the point that If they're low cost then corps will buy them in droves.
Most companies will set up a deal with other companies to buy bulk at low prices, I highly doubt valve will offer that considering the restrictions they put on buying the steam deck to avoid scalpers.
I'd like to hope the Gabe cube be priced at a reasonable consumer viable price (+ ram tax) with the same 1 per account restriction that they had on the deck
Blame LTT for that. They're the ones that put out the initial idea that corporations might buy them thus valve cannot sell them at a loss.
When I first heard them say that I initially thought "yeah that makes sense". But after a while of thinking about it, no it doesn't make any sense at all, I have no idea why he said that.