It’s a market with a well defined celling. It always competes against raw hardware cost and you can only subsidize it for so long before you run out money or shareholder confidence.
I don’t think the new high console prices will be sustainable business model going forward.
Valve’s Steam Deck is produced on a small scale and is only sold directly by Valve and their global sales numbers are lower compared to even even this years sales numbers of other consoles, which is considered to be the worst year for XBOX ever.
On top of that, new Steam Machine “console” will be sold as a PC and at PC pricing without them subsidizing raw hardware cost. It’s simply unsustainable.
I mean with MSFT abandoning Xbox as a hardware platform why wouldn’t they? Especially if Valve becomes their main competition in the future.
Valve scale is negligible at least for now. They are very far from being a real competitor.
Sure. But I don’t see any other company that could even have an interest in the console market.
It’s a market with a well defined celling. It always competes against raw hardware cost and you can only subsidize it for so long before you run out money or shareholder confidence.
I don’t think the new high console prices will be sustainable business model going forward.
What makes you say that?
Valve’s Steam Deck is produced on a small scale and is only sold directly by Valve and their global sales numbers are lower compared to even even this years sales numbers of other consoles, which is considered to be the worst year for XBOX ever.
On top of that, new Steam Machine “console” will be sold as a PC and at PC pricing without them subsidizing raw hardware cost. It’s simply unsustainable.