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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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days 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 2 points 2 days 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 0 points 2 days 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. 😆

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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