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Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; they charge 30% royalty per game sold. Valve often boasts that they have a very high Rev / Employee

Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; they charge 30% royalty per game sold. Valve often boasts that they have a very high Rev / Employee number.

IshKebab 3mo ago
Yeah but then people would buy them for non-gaming use. Remember the PS2 supercomputers?
- Telaneo 3mo ago
  *PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
  - IshKebab 3mo ago
    From that very page... > The National Center for Supercomputing Applications had already built a cluster based on the PlayStation 2.
    - Telaneo 3mo ago
      I haven't heard of any others, and your comment said 'supercomputers'. Not to mention that the NSCA was just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it would prove useful when it came to the PS2,[0] and their setup never worked reliably.[1] The PS3 had several supercomputers made independently.[1][2][3] [0] https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-supercomputer-game/ https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-superco... [1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercomputer.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercompu... [2] https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/ https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/ [3] https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701 https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701
- s3krit 3mo ago
  and the fears that Saddam Hussein was going to buy a bunch of PS2s because the cpu was SO POWERFUL they would be used for missile guidance systems or something
ncallaway 3mo ago
> Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; They're not, because they don't lock down the hardware to only Steam. If they subsidized the cost, people could just buy them as general purpose computers and not buy steam games on them. Valve would only be in a position to subsidize the hardware if they locked the hardware down to just the Steam store.
- Forgeties79 3mo ago
  Let’s be real here. If you aren’t going to use it with SteamOS you’re in a very, very small group.
  - ncallaway 3mo ago
    That’s true when they’re selling it at cost. If they’re selling it below cost, that could very quickly stop being true.

Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; they charge 30% royalty per game sold. Valve often boasts that they have a very high Rev / Employee number.

IshKebab 3mo ago

Yeah but then people would buy them for non-gaming use. Remember the PS2 supercomputers?

Telaneo 3mo ago
*PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
- IshKebab 3mo ago
  From that very page... > The National Center for Supercomputing Applications had already built a cluster based on the PlayStation 2.
  - Telaneo 3mo ago
    I haven't heard of any others, and your comment said 'supercomputers'. Not to mention that the NSCA was just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it would prove useful when it came to the PS2,[0] and their setup never worked reliably.[1] The PS3 had several supercomputers made independently.[1][2][3] [0] https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-supercomputer-game/ https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/27/playing-the-superco... [1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercomputer.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/ps3-supercompu... [2] https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/ https://web.uri.edu/gravity/ps3/ [3] https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701 https://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/701
s3krit 3mo ago
and the fears that Saddam Hussein was going to buy a bunch of PS2s because the cpu was SO POWERFUL they would be used for missile guidance systems or something

ncallaway 3mo ago

> Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; They're not, because they don't lock down the hardware to only Steam. If they subsidized the cost, people could just buy them as general purpose computers and not buy steam games on them. Valve would only be in a position to subsidize the hardware if they locked the hardware down to just the Steam store.

Forgeties79 3mo ago
Let’s be real here. If you aren’t going to use it with SteamOS you’re in a very, very small group.
- ncallaway 3mo ago
  That’s true when they’re selling it at cost. If they’re selling it below cost, that could very quickly stop being true.