Consoles make an attempt to be a locked ecosystem - which is why they can subsidize it - because they know if you buy it your buying their games for it.
Then I’m misunderstanding this part. The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.
But in the current climate I image that if the Steam machine was heavily subsidized that there would be a subset of people abusing that by doing something like purchasing, harvesting, and immediately reselling its parts.
Not much to abuse. The same way that the subsidizing of consoles doesn’t open it up for abuse per se
Valve would just lose money on a lot of sales, as they can’t get a guaranteed recoup of the subsidy in the same way that Sony or Nintendo do
I mean sort of, if it was heavily subsidised, people would just buy a bunch of them and make a server farm or something like that
US air force and PS3s anyone
Consoles make an attempt to be a locked ecosystem - which is why they can subsidize it - because they know if you buy it your buying their games for it.
Yes, that’s what I’m saying
Then I’m misunderstanding this part. The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.
But in the current climate I image that if the Steam machine was heavily subsidized that there would be a subset of people abusing that by doing something like purchasing, harvesting, and immediately reselling its parts.
You mean the thing that was amazing advertisement for the computing power of the PS3 over the Xbox360? Yeah, Sony suffered so much from the abuse.
Okay - go tell Valve to subsidize it for marketing purposes then.