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"I'll stop making them when you stop buying them."

Yes, they have HD vibrations you know

I may be ignorant af here but...I think culturally, they aren't nearly as cynical as we are about the corporate hellscape, at least not publicly.

The attitude seems to be that companies, especially Nintendo, are a home-country brand, seen as successful and good at business, and therefore should be respected for it.

This is the likely the same attitude that leads to their abysmal work culture that prizes literally working yourself to death, or at least as close to it as you can.

I think the death grip is loosening though, primarily driven by younger generations seeing through the bullshit.

No surprise there, there are plenty of people with expendable income that will want Valve's newest thing. But even their biggest success, the Steam Deck, only managed around 5 million sales at a reasonable price. The Steam Machine is doubly niche at that price.

It IS a PC

I look at the Steam Machine being a proof of concept device leading to third party development.

There is now a lot of interest in computer markers to make their own machine and Valve is more than happy if they do it at no cost to Valve.

I can't really blame em for that. I blame Sam Altman and the army of Clankers that spawned from it