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Steam has explicitly said they are not subsidizing the steam machine as other console makers do
iirc they said they weren't selling at a loss, but that's not the same thing as selling at a low margin. PC manufacturers have to make essentially 100% of their profit from the initial sale of the device, but valve can make a smaller profit from the sale of each device because they know each device will lead to additional profit through game purchases
I thought pc makers made side profits with all the bloatware they install. And possibly some weird deals with M$ too.
Like everything else, you can find some that do and some that don't. Best yet, it goes both ways. When someone sells you a bloated PC, they often share a bit of the payoff with you making the price slightly cheaper than would be possible otherwise.
Historically M$ has even threatened manufacturers NOT to sell with Linux installed. They attacked some major retail brands, threatened to pull their license to sell windows.
it's a great big clusterfuck
They don't know that, if they sell cheap enough it might be worth it for a random office somewhere to order a hundred and use them as work computers with no intention to ever buy a game in them. Also they aren't going to be locked, nothing prevents you from getting one and run games purchased in every market under the sun that isn't steam (and/or pirated games).
I don't think they have any certainty that they'll even make decent money on them. I am hopeful that this will be good for everyone but can't exactly see how at the moment.