Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its 'religious' refusal to 'build a more closed system'
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The company says subsidizing hardware costs is ultimately worse for the consumer.
  • etchinghillside@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    not much to abuse

    Then I’m misunderstanding this part. The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

    But in the current climate I image that if the Steam machine was heavily subsidized that there would be a subset of people abusing that by doing something like purchasing, harvesting, and immediately reselling its parts.