Is also a free game engine if your earning are lower than $200,000/year.

https://unigine.com/get-unigine/

I just wish Valve would try to deliver the SteamMachine in form of barebone: without ram and storage. So customers can find their own way to build their PC.

…and once freed from ram cartel, push for a very alluring price on par with what they did with the SteamDeck.

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Other than the broad “Microsoft hate” people is thinking about, there are two reason I can think about; and none about Gaben being a Microsoft’s scorned ex-employer.

1. conflict of interest: Microsoft’s EEE. Look it up. If they rule the OS on which majority of Steam Hardware work on, Microsoft rules on a competitors against it’s “Xbox experience”.
2. Microsoft doesn’t allow open source drivers to officially run on Windows. Any hardware driver must be done, paid, by close doors at Valve and no extra help as the whole community around mesa and affiliated. There’s a reason why Valve is skipping Nvidia on basically everything.

“Barebone” market does exist, and since market couldn’t exist without money… I guess there are “money-bringing entities” (aka customers) already for that sort of stuff. …but electric cars without batteries and wheels market? not quite sure about that.

Not sure how it became a ‘Steam Machine rival’.

Is a Steam Machine rival in the sense that Valve has to bent and pray to ram cartel to have a batch of machines to sell; AOOSTAR don’t. Of course, AOOSTAR doesn’t have the reaching power of Valve; but this may help Valve to understand there are options to what the ram cartel forces them into.

Much worse only if you’ve already accepted their ads-spyware through the ads-spyware cookie-wall. If you clear the cache of your browser and step back, they may force you back with the cookie wall.

The point of a “box” like this is an out-the-door experience that anyone can jump into.

The idea is not “get rid of all Steam Machines with ram/sdd and sell only the barebone ones”.

The idea is “add a selling option”; then let buyers, with their money to decide if they want to pay premium for the “out-the-door” thing, or they are looking for something to mess with.

Both kind of clients.

…at the same time (some may want to buy 2 mismatched Steam Machines: one with and one without).

As per “shifting” infrastructure or whatnot. We’re talking pre orders here. “Worst” case scenario no one buys the barebone one or just few: in this case you get little efforts in telling those “extra clients” to wait a bit longer (patient gamers are happy if they get to pay less and have better bugfixed systems).

On the other side, if the volume of the barebone match or surpasses the “premium” one… well, Valve got the answer they need to get rid of the ram cartel.

Valve is not making you paying “premium price” on ram because Gabe need a new Yatch. Valve is making paying “premium price” on ram because the ram cartel need a new Yatch.

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GPU: Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs, 2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP
RAM: 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
Power: Internal power supply, AC power 110-240V
Storage: Two Steam Machine models:
 512GB NVMe SSD
 2TB NVMe SSD

Wi-Fi: 2×2 Wi-Fi 6E
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5.3 dedicated antenna
Steam Controller: Integrated 2.4 GHz Steam Controller wireless adapter
Displays:

DisplayPort 1.4
Up to 4K @ 240Hz or 8K@60Hz
Supports HDR, FreeSync, and daisy-chaining
HDMI 2.0
Up to 4K @ 120Hz
Supports HDR, FreeSync, and CEC

USB:
 Two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports in the front 
 Two USB-A 2.0 High speed ports in the back
 One USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port in the back

Networking: Gigabit ethernet
LED Strip: 17 individually addressable RGB LEDs for system status and customizability
Size: 152 mm tall (148 mm without feet), 162.4 mm deep, 156 mm wide
Weight: 2.6 kg
Operating System: SteamOS 3 (Arch-based)
Desktop: KDE Plasma```

That would be up to the customer to choose. The purpose of any product is to be sold/not sold, everything else is just PR and advertisement.

If ram/ssd suppliers force your product to lose its purpose (due the price being too high), there’s no purpose to defeat since there are no sales at all (aside for scalpers that buy everything for speculative hopes/purposes)

This argument was discussed already: subscription had, and has, it’s own market in which is a finite resource of customers willing to endlessly pay.

The problem was for products that were “surprise subscription” : a customer buying Crew1 on the shelves of the single player category… then, after some random number of month discover it was, indeed, a “surprise subscription” which ended whenever Ubisoft felt like to do so.

Sony: PC doesn’t make us money.

That’s quite correct, PC does not, indeed, make their Playstation’s money. Once customers realize they can be treated with respect, it’s unlikely they’ll return to the PlayStation’s walled garden to be constantly bi**h slapped and forced to pay for everything (for example, even just to play online).

As side note, Unity was founded in Copenhagen.

Also, Godot, started in Latin America, I bet due its global nature has most European people working on a world-wide popular Game Engine in the world already.

Jeff Lew started the franchise in 1996 with “Killer Bean: The Interrogation” web short.

If you think it’s some sort of parody for “Kill Bill”… considered the movie was released in 2003

So… you’re gonna lower the price, right?

Right?

… Like the refound policy, it’s not like big billionaire have any kind of obligation towards people’s health and safety: they can model the world just about those “special” islands they party all time

Well, you have to go with loss leader for a long time… then progressively bullying your own customers to arise the price until reach parity.

…from then you finally earn by continuing bullying the remaining customers as some sort of whales (people keep paying for shitty service due to constant spending habit).

I don’t see why this would work with the simple concept: pay & get value that come with indie.

You need a big plan to screw your customers and, like Google Stadia, carelessly drop millions in the trashbin just to buy that only lucky ticked that made Netflix win (but you did lose)

…instead like, you know, being unemployed just because people are angry; I guess.

Chinese pirated copies in internet cafe for shady activities: usually Valve fixed this data in the coming days/hours. But I think it’s nice to have a snapshot: a sudden motion of 30% would technically mean a sudden switch of millions of customers (or a bunch bot machines well placed)

PC today sold at 1500€ will be sold at 500€ in 2028, so… yeah, I don’t know what people is thinking.

One could say “you’re missing the whole picture, Alessando: in 2028 people would want to buy shiny new 2028 PCs capable of 2028-tripleA-gaming”

But this is also not the whole picture: if a brand new in 2028 that cost 501€ (500+1) doesn’t, at very least, match a 1500€ from the 2025 PC… it simply mean that only rich idiot will buy brand new PC in 2028 (aka: OEM won’t simply sell new stuff)

Snapdragon platform is already tailing PC gaming… if OEM won’t sell new X86 PC, Snapdragon (and like) are coming to get that hole in the PC market.

(but my true hopes are in RiscV: ARM holding can easily dragged in the hardware AI hell as well as AMD and Intel were)

Depends on the government involved: Roblox tax money factory for US government, which considering a certain island, currently aren’t too keen get in too many details in wealthy predators.

(Each government around the worlds got their own, BTW)