YouTube star LinusTechTips has revealed that Valve wasn’t overly impressed with his suggestion of a $500 price tag for the dubbed Steam Console.

“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.”

  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    PC gamers. A decent gaming PC these days is over a grand. That’s not even a high end machine, either

    • baatliwala@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s barely “decent” because it’s not even as powerful as a base PS5 which came out 5 years ago. Consoles are the baseline for any AA or AAA game and it will become outdated very quickly for a PC you can’t even fully upgrade.

      • TomAwezome@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        All consoles become outdated and can’t have their hardware upgraded, so it’s just another game console. Maybe they’re pulling from Nintendo’s playbook and intentionally shipping weaker hardware as part of their strategy. Plus, if developers target optimizing for the GabeCube’s specs, it would increase benefits for players across weak and strong PC hardware.