TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a “Frame Verified” status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.
I reeeeaaaally hope they do something like how microsoft and playstation purposefully sell their consoles at a loss ( I think it was 360 and ps3 ). One can dream.
No. They’ve told LTT and Gamers Nexus that these will not be loss leaders. They want to make hardware sustainable for themselves
tbh I didn’t know there was a term for this lol. No matter what price they decide on, I do hope to pick one up.
Yeah. You can sell ‘pure consoles’ at a loss and make it up with games sales. This is basically a mini PC that you could reinstall the OS and use for any purpose. Selling it at a loss would be crazy.
100000% it would be crazy. If I remember correctly, the xbox one and ps4 weren’t really sold as loss leaders, that or they were priced closer to their manufacturing cost.
I have been thinking, I don’t think it really matters to them what the consumer does with their machine. I mean, at the end of the day, you’re still gonna be buying steam games simply for the service.
Imagine the loss when the US government decides to buy a bunch of em PS3s for their supercomputer —
tbh that was a cool airforce moment. Idk about current day, I doubt anyone would buy a shit ton of steam machines just to make a hpc cluster. BUT it would be cool af :]
Its possible, iirc steam deck was sold at a loss of $150 per unit.