inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day agoThe Steam Frame could be priced at $1,500 at launch, according to insiderwww.tweaktown.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up196
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minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoYeah, and valve could do that too if they wanted.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoI mean if they wanted to lose their asses, sure.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoThey really wouldn’t.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoThis is not complicated. Sell open hardware at a loss, buyer doesn’t use it to buy games, money is never recuperated. Valve loses their asses.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoIt’s steam, they hold an effective monopoly on PC game sales. I’d understand this argument with the steam machine as businesses could buy them cheap for non-gaming use but there really is not much of a non-gaming market for VR hardware.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours ago they hold an effective monopoly on PC game sales Did I say Steam games? I said games. there really is not much of a non-gaming market for VR hardware Uhhhh yes? There’s an enormous commercial market. One that will grow larger with this headset being released.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoIf that’s the case the commercial market should be buying up PSVRs and Quest 3s in mass.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoBoth of those are locked down platforms. For that reason. That’s the whole point.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoYou can stream PC software to a quest 3, you can sideload apps, and PSVR has a PC adapter.
Yeah, and valve could do that too if they wanted.
I mean if they wanted to lose their asses, sure.
They really wouldn’t.
This is not complicated. Sell open hardware at a loss, buyer doesn’t use it to buy games, money is never recuperated. Valve loses their asses.
It’s steam, they hold an effective monopoly on PC game sales.
I’d understand this argument with the steam machine as businesses could buy them cheap for non-gaming use but there really is not much of a non-gaming market for VR hardware.
Did I say Steam games? I said games.
Uhhhh yes? There’s an enormous commercial market. One that will grow larger with this headset being released.
If that’s the case the commercial market should be buying up PSVRs and Quest 3s in mass.
Both of those are locked down platforms. For that reason. That’s the whole point.
You can stream PC software to a quest 3, you can sideload apps, and PSVR has a PC adapter.