“I can’t tell you what the price will be, because I literally don’t know,” he said on the November 15 episode of the WAN show.

“When I said I’m disappointed it isn’t going to follow a console pricing model, where its subsided by the fact that manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel that would be a more meaningful product, they asked what I meant by console price and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great.”

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    15 hours ago

    If they don’t price it like a computer, companies would just buy them and not even buy games.

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        After cutting the price to reach greater audience (originally too expensive) Sony had to remove Linux support from Playstation 3 because companies where amassing lot of those things to set up some sort of DIY supercomputers.

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        13 hours ago

        Maybe a startup would do it. If they did development of smaller shit like apps or simple web dev. But yeah no, no business would do this because businesses need support deals.

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            12 hours ago

            You think healthcare businesses (I forget healthcare is a business in America, sorry) would be caught using Steam Machines as work stations? They would risk ridicule. Wouldn’t be taken seriously.

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              12 hours ago

              Stop assuming everyone is US please.

              Healthcare around the world is stingy.
              They try to get around buying high capacity backup drives because they paid 200€ for 5 1TB HDDs 6 years ago.

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                9 hours ago

                Stop assuming everyone is US please.

                I didn’t, and usually don’t, so that’s all good and fine. 👍

                Healthcare around the world is stingy.

                I will highly doubt any place would do this. Nobody making these decisions knows enough about computer performance, I bet you. Government decision makers don’t, for sure. 😆

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        13 hours ago

        No it aint.
        Not every company is a multi-bilion corporation distributed across 20 countries.