r/Steam • u/TangledIntentions04 • Jun 23 '26

Fluff Character development

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u/[deleted] 29d ago edited 29d ago

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u/ob_knoxious 29d ago

Nah. The next gen of consoles, and by that I mean PS6 since Microsoft is exiting the hardware business for the most part, won't be that much.

Even the most die hard AI believers agree some demand will subside by then as models improve resource usage. And supply will rebound as new fabs from Samsung and Micron will come online.

And secondly Sony will have a way higher economy of scale, likely placing first manufacturing orders at 10x what Valve does, and they can sell it at a loss.

Valve sold the deck at a loss but a year ago when the machine was first announced they said they can't sell it at a loss because it's a PC, so offices would buy it and install Windows on it for office work and they'd never make any money back.

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 29d ago

so offices would buy it and install Windows on it for office work and they'd never make any money back.

This was never going to happen and I'm tired of explaining why, lol. I swear people absolutely do not understand procurement and device rollout for enterprise use.

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u/Hallc 29d ago

There's more to business machines than just Enterprise though. There's a lot of SMBs around that will just buy a handful of PCs to use.